Gadgetory

welcome to my unboxing and the Seagate backup plus for a portable drive versus their more desktop oriented drive the time also happen to have here now the key difference between the max keys and the PC skews is things like color and things like the included cables because pcs are generally going to be USB 3 and Max are generally not going to be USB 3 because Apple and their infinite wisdom doesn't believe in USB 3 although they'll probably change their tune now that Intel's integrated it onto their chipsets you also see so you see things like firewire 800 included instead of USB 3 although this one looks like it is just USB 2 so in this case the Mac Edition the Mac Edition 1 gets the shaft because it just gets a silver housing which I guess will look better with your Mac it is Time Machine compatible though so is so is anything with you know storage on it and it is Mac OS compatible but then again so is anything with storage on it because it is also windows compatible and it just comes down to what the pre-configured formatting is so tiny pockets social media hah this is cool though backup plus dry its have software that not only allow you to easily backup your computer but also your social media so they're mostly focused on Facebook right now hence the Facebook logo on the back of the drive you can backup all of the photos that you've already uploaded to Facebook once you through your account credentials on here so you can make sure that it can actually grab them for you and they're looking at adding support for additional social media sites in the future flexible for all your needs Mac users increase transport by upgrading to firewire or Thunderbolt adapter which you can get sold separately although that Thunderbolt ones probably pretty pricey however if you wanted to get the most out of actually running applications directly off the driver or whatever the case may be you probably do want to use Thunderbolt versus firewire 800 which is sort of slow QuickStart guide alright and a very Apple looking Drive here so we got just like a Seagate logo II think it's kind of silver on the top kind of white on the bottom it's just about as Apple as it gets silver and white and could it be more Apple is a trouble I guess they could put an Apple logo in it but Apple might get upset they tend not to really like that just go and like put an apple on things not that I'm saying Seagate would want to put an apple logo on their product in Seagate is a well-respected brand I don't know why they putting apple on it that would help my opinion sorry that was my that was my PC Gamer had that I was wearing that taking it off now so anyway we got Seagate logo thing going on we got a nice aluminum top so that's for something the PC version didn't get however they did get a USB 3 chipset so the good thing about all of that though is because these are using the Seagate sort of go flex I don't know if they still use that I guess USM is the new branding for it but whatever it is they use their modular interfaces out the back which means it's just to stay to drive in a you know plastic slash aluminum enclosure and then all you have to do if you want to use a different interface with it is a different interface cable whether it's Thunderbolt firewire 800 USB doesn't matter you source a different interface module plug it into the drive and now this is a stylish looking like brushed oh did I say the PC one wasn't metal well it's not metal stylish brushed looking you know black slash silver slash white drive that is now USB 3 ready it's that simple guys because all of the logic is actually in here not here this is just a drive and I love this concept because it has saved my bacon any number of times when I've gone compared to traditional solutions which were that the enclosure had all the logic built into it and then you had whatever interfaces you had if you wanted to have two different interfaces you have them both you had to have all the logic you had to spend more on your drive in order to in order to make sure that you'd be able to plug it into whatever you want well I just have a bunch of these cables lying around these days and then if I ever run into a scenario where I'm like oh shoot that system doesn't support USB 3 but it does have power T SATA and I want to get the best performance possible I throw my power do you see the one on there plug in my drive and I'm good to go so that is that is the solution for that and that's why I like it so look at that this one also has like a raise like sexy shiny CDA logo and this one has just like a flat do you get logo this one slick or better shinier it's we're running out of battery too so I think that pretty much covers it anyway so thank you for checking out my unboxing and the backup plus for Mac portable drive and don't forget to subscribe - tech tips from our boxing's reviews and at the computer videos