Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I finally got a new laptop with a lone USB 3.0 port. I'm now looking at getting a USB 3.0 hub with a power adapter so I can use both of my USB 3.0 hard drives at faster speeds. I've read lots of horror stories where some hubs either don't come with power adapters -- and as a consequence the portable drives don't work with them properly -- or they are designed poorly which results in USB 2.0 speeds. Or, the hard drives keep getting disconnected. Do your readers have any suggestions or experience using USB 3.0 hubs? Thanks!"
I was really expecting to see one of those boxing gloves on a spring when the box was opened. I thought that an overpriced laptop was a joke. I guess there really is a folls market.
fools*
When you take your laptop absolutely everywhere, as I do, it warrants a more significant monetary investment.
Does a higher price tag equal mor productivity. I don't think so.
It certainly can. Some people need apps that don't run on linux based operating systems, making their only decent option Mac OS X. If they want portability, power, and a good screen resolution and battery life under OS X, they're going to need a MacBook Pro.
(or verrrrry carefully selected hardware and an EFI bootloader, but most people don't want to bother with all that..)
It's probably best to get one refurbished.
Is mac osx linux based?
@Dustin
No, it's not
OS X is unix, and Linux is unix-like, so they have many of the same advantages.
Yes Dustie, OSx is linux based. FreeBSD.
Sorry I was wrong and I admit it just this one time - It's not linux-based. It's based on FreeBSD, which, like linux, is unix-like, but not unix. Open source, "free", but not literally linux.
I am going to make a new OS. I am going to take something absolutely free, add some wallpapers, maybe change some colors and have a really cool slogan that says "Think different". Maybe charge double for my hardware. Censor any negative comments on my website. Make commercials complaining about another OS but don't say why mine is better. Call the new HD standard a bag of hurt. Make a cell phone that cannot ever be dropped. Forget about copy and paste. Forget about flash and media text messaging. Tell everyone to buy my hardware because you are different and make sure that every one of my customers have the EXACT same laptop. What do you think? Will I be rich?
You might be rich, if you did it all right. Also, what do you mean, "take something that is absolutely free"? If you released a computer that ran just FreeBSD, or Linux, without spending the money to develop a GUI, you'd definitely fail. OSX adds value to the "free" stuff on which it's based, by offering a very good GUI (and of course the rock solid stability of a unix-like substrate). You might not like it, you might be bitter and unhappy about that OSX GUI, but a lot of people will appreciate it and would buy it - e.g., apple computers. So, when you talk about just taking "something that is absolutely free" and throwing it on a computer, realize that you'd not have OSX in that case. You'd have a command-line driven system that for the masses is not at all easy to use. You'd have the equivalent ease of use of MS-Dos, linux, unix, or freebsd. All of which are command line driven and require additional "point and click" GUIs to run on top of them before they are appealing on a mass scale.
I'm no fanboy - I have both, and I appreciate both. OSX and Apple do charge premiums, but they're just so damned fun . . . .
Don't be a hater . . . . but please be a Good Speller.
I do appreciate Apple. I just believe that they are over priced. I actually have both. I have problems with mickeysoft as well. Vista sucks but I have had very good experiences with Windows 7.
oops. With all due respect to rms and the fsf, I'd like to amend my post and revise linux to: gnu+linux.
Yes, I agree D, you can get the same set of hardware specs in a pc for less than Apple charges you. I see it as buying a basic car vs. a luxury car. Both have the ability to get you from point A to point B. But if you want the pretty one, with the beautiful curves, handmade dash, the supple leather, that responds beautifully and drives like a dream, then you're going to pay a lot more. You overpaid to get from Point A to Point B, but you've paid more in order to get the wonderful, fun experience of driving such a well made beautiful car. A lot of people think it's ludicrous to buy the sports car, when a cheaper car does the basic job equally as well. But then again, a lot of folks just love cars . . .
So, it sounds like you're similar to me. You have your "driver" - the reasonably priced vehicle that goes from Point A to B, that works with everything, but you also have in the garage the beautifully built, fun-to-drive sports car as well, because you love to drive and you're willing to pay more to have that kind of machine.
It's a good mix. Works for me.
PS - haven't tried it, but I do hear W7 is pretty nice.