Take your Linux desktop on the road with the GlobeTrotter

LaCie, previously famous for the unstoppable extremeness of their Bigger Disk Extreme and their silver-ingot external drives, has dropped their latest silvery Porsche-designed external drive on us. The difference this time is the inclusion of a Linux distro on board courtesy of MandrakeSoft, so you can hook the GlobeTrotter up to any PC or Mac via USB, whence it will detect the hardware and boot you up a Mandrake Linux desktop. At 40GB the drive itself isn't tremendously large, and you're obviously not going to have much luck working on planes with it, but at $219 the pricing doesn't seem too steep.

[Via Mycom PC Web (Japanese)]

UPDATE: A couple of sharp-eyed readers point out that Mandrake won't boot on the PPC chips that Macs use, though you can access 10MB of the GlobeTrotter's hard drive space. Thanks for the correction.

 

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:23AM]

says so right on the Madrake site. Uses Mandrake 10.0, which can't run on the PPC chip.

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[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:23AM]

This cannot boot on a PPC machine. Mandrake cannot boot on PPC's. Only the hard drive features may be used on a Mac.

You got me all excited, and now im all diapointed.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:23AM]

Says right on the Lacie site that the 40GB model is only $140...
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10106
...unless you're content with spending an extra $80 for mandrake. 60GB = $180; 80GB = $240; and 100GB = $340.