both drives will work fine. it's just the essential one spins at a faster spead.
you see this a lot, for example, if you search for sd ram on amazon. You see some cheap SD ram, at about 11.99 each, then you see for "iMac g3 g4 eMac..." advertised ram for about 22.99 each. People seam to think that just because you own a mac they can get more money.
ash On 27/03/2011 22:44, Geoff Waaler wrote:
Greetings all, Recently a friend found a 500 GB Passport at the Apple store for twice what I paid for my 1TB drive last year. It said that it was for MacOS, but since my MBP has no trouble finding or reading my drive, I didn't see this deal as a bargin exactly. This afternoon I searched the US Amazon site for the string: "passport tb" and noticed that the prices for the "mac" drives are consistently higher than their "windows" counterparts. Two examples follow: Western Digital My Passport SE for Mac 1 TB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive (Silver) $117.27 vs: Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1 TB USB 3.0/2.0 Ultra Portable External Hard Drive (Black) (Windows) $89.99 I'm not certain whether these products are identical. The color varies, as does the fact that the more expensive drive's description emits the word "essential", and does not support USB 3.0 (which may not be applicable for MACOS yet anyway). My older drive came with software that I never use -- is this the only difference between the two drive models? If so, would I care about the software in the MacOS platform? I assume I could se either drive with timeMachine and to store files? TIA for any input and best regards. Geoff
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