Fortysomething Geek

I had to use an external Thunderbolt bootable mac drive for the past 2 weeks and the experience has been great.
If you ever booted off Firewire or USB 2.0, the experience was horrible. You often felt like you were using a 2004 Macbook with a (削除) 5400 (削除ここまで) 4800 rpm hard drive. Even USB 3.0 operates fairs very poorly due to random reads/writes. Thunderbolt doesn't seem to have those lag issues and feels nearly native to me.

My early 2012 27" iMac went kaput so it went into service. Before it went in, I cloned the drive to a SSD. While the iMac was in the shop, I booted off the SSD via the Seagate (STAE121) Go-Flex Thunderbolt adapter. I simply plugged the drive into another iMac (and Macbook) and it just worked like usual. No need to install different drivers for different hardware or re-configure anything.

Booting off Thunderbolt is a dream. In fact, running off an external SSD was faster than booting off the normal internal 7200rpm hard drive. Mountain Lion boots in about 10 seconds off Thunderbolt.

Carbon Cloning (ghosting) a Mountain Lion OS with the full Adobe CS 5.5, MS Office, GIT, MySQL suite took less than 10 minutes. My working OS build was approximately 40GB in size so this is pretty fast. I did not suffer any sleep issues or drive disconnecting. The typical usage was 9-10 hours a day.
The only thing that was a slight concern was the Thunderbolt cables warming after extended use.



This is an ideal setup for someone who wants to run different versions of OS and Apps. For example, you can keep up to date with FCP X and have a fast bootable OS with just Final Cut 7 when you need it.

Running MAME off a smartphone (Galaxy Nexus)

If you think Apple is a marketing machine, you will be completely surprised by this chart.


Samsung spent more this year than Apple, Dell , HP in the last four years combined.
Think about it. It is also bigger than Apple, HP, Dell, Microsoft and Coca Cola combined.

Wow, I did not know that. No wonder there are so many S3s flooding the market.


Source: Business Insider , CNNMoney, Cost of Selling Galaxies.

I normally dont like to repost other articles on my blog but I found this interesting for many of my mac readers.

Designboom has a showcase of some interesting 20-30 year old designs that never saw fruition. Some of them look rather interesting considering the technology at the time.


Here is a tablet from 1982.





Link: http://www.designboom.com/technology/hartmut-esslingers-early-apple-computer-and-tablet-designs/

I got this last Christmas (2011), booted it up once, and quickly put it away in the closet.

This has to be the most useless device out there. It was such a major flop, Logitech embarrassingly admitted to have lost over 100ドル million in operating profits and quietly distance itself from this fiasco.

Who thought of releasing a smart tv device that couldn't stream Hulu or Netflix must be insane. Moreover, there is like zero apps for this thing. The only thing you can do with this is surf the web on a big screen. You can do that with a 60ドル MK802 USB stick that can run any ARM app from the Google Play store.

I haven't had much time to post. Once I get drives, I'll see how this 100ドル RAID box compares with a 850ドル drobo.
Initial testing with old 500gb drives look promising.