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My Book 500 GB External HD - Unboxing

2007-10-25
hey guys john here I had a couple requests to unbox my new external hard drive to my book especially user moose hair 999 subscriber mind where you want to see it so I'm gonna do it but bear with me I didn't want to set up my camera and stuff so I'm just gonna try it with you guys like see how it works might not be the best fit give it a whirl anyway like I showed you earlier this is the my book I bought it from Costco which for those of you that don't know it's a warehouse saw are they something involved or large purchases and they happen to have this my book drive 500 gigabytes with USB 2.0 and firewire 400 and it was a 149 us that was a pretty good deal for 500 gigs of storage gonna be perfect for a time machine reason that I got it so let's go ahead and unbox it bad boy cut it out of the plastic I think if you buy it from somewhere other than copper won't won't come in this giant sorry that was a little all right here it is my book says stuff that's included but I guess we'll see it so I won't go and read it for you a compatibility windows vista XP 2000 Mac OS 10 0.3 or higher 500 gigabytes they're saying you can store up to 140 mm photos 38 hours and movies for 125,000 songs which is actually pretty impressive let's go ahead open this bad boy up it's pretty decent size so unlike my 160 little passport Drive this one looks like it has a power supply but we'll go through everything here so packaging actually not that actually not that big a figure it that stuff on I'll give you guys a minute it's always fun to open up new things here alright so this this is it not terribly big is it the front of it looks like that's the power button that goes in on the back it's like there's power USB and two firewire cables I'm on the way to firewire cables I don't know why there would be two but you know there are again there's the USB and to firewire it's like there's a lock there - and power thick it is let me show you guys something I'm sure you're all familiar with the iPhone you get comparison alongside for thickness look too small it's not giant though either then I can sit it right behind my macbook pro and I'll probably never even notice it see what else it came with here tar brick wasn't that big it's almost like a cell phone power but with a that's have a connection now nothing proprietary or not but there it is a u.s. be cable standard USB cable and they gave you a they give me a FireWire 400 cable which is nice so I don't have to use another one alright guys that's it my book 500 also known as my time machine drive 500 gig should be the last hard drive I need to buy it for a while I'm assuming anyway guys thanks for watching any questions about the hard drive let me know thanks for watching thanks for subscribing and tomorrow is a leopard day and barring them selling out I guarantee I'll have a copy tomorrow I'll unbox it for you guys I don't want to see it actually I kind of want to see it too so I've been in boxing for you and review a little while later anyway guys for a walkthrough of leopard check out Apple comm they've got a couple minute video on that shows all the cool features I'm excited I know you guys have brought our excited I'm gonna figure out getting it tomorrow but you certainly get it within a week or so and we've all waited long enough as a quick heads-up don't answer questions some people were wondering if computers that they bought tomorrow or that you could install with leopard they're not the answer is no they're enough to be pre-installed with leopard you if you can send it in send in a coupon it they could pay 10 bucks for shipping and we'll send you a free copy you got to wait a couple weeks for those computers to get out so I recommend waiting they may send out some updated Mac books with leopard and maybe a macbook slim and who knows but if you waited this long listen a couple weeks all right guys thanks for watching thanks for subscribing and I'll talk to you later
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