WD My Passport for Mac 500GB Portable External Hard Drive Storage USB 3.0 (WDBLUZ5000ASL-NESN)

WD My Passport for Mac 500GB Portable External Hard Drive Storage USB 3.0 (WDBLUZ5000ASL-NESN)..

Grab Now WD My Passport for Mac 500GB Portable External Hard Drive Storage USB 3.0 (WDBLUZ5000ASL-NESN) By Western Digital

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604 of 614 people found the following review helpful.
You can use any external hard drive with your Mac....
By Chuck Bittner
TIP: YOU CAN USE ANY EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE WITH A MAC AND DON'T NEED A "MAC COMPATIBLE" DRIVE. Amazon has a few cheaper drives if you look around. Be sure to buy the biggest drive you can afford as at some point you will need/want it. Be sure to check your price of the different sizes some are so close as to justify the up charge in price. At the time of writing the 1TBb drive was only $5 more than the 500GB drive so that is a no brainer.

If you're a Mac user setting up or erasing this hard drive up with your computer is super easy follow these steps. I never use software that comes with hard drives I just wipe them & use Time Machine.

1. Plug in the hard drive
2. Open up disk utility found in your applications folder inside the utilities folder
3. Next select the newly plugged in a hard drive and on the right-hand side you should see partition click on that.
4. Then inside that screen on the partition layout drop-down choose how many partitions you'd like to set up. I generally go with one partition and just use folders to organize my files.
5. Then on the right-hand side you can name the partitions and select the format. If you want your hard drive to work with your Mac for doing Time Machine backups (which I highly recommend) choose Mac OS Extended. Sometimes it's good to make two partitions and one using "MS-DOS fat" if you might be transferring files to and from a Windows machine. The reason is Windows machines and Max can read and write to the "MS-DOS fat" format but your files will need to be under 4 GB each as that's the maximum file size it can hold.
6. Then click apply and your Mac will create all the partitions you wanted and you're good to go.

Thanks for reading it is helpful please click the button thanks.

142 of 146 people found the following review helpful.
A great portable drive for new Macs!
By maxmasa31
In ten years, I've owned at least five external hard drives from Western Digital and have never had a problem with any of them. They're reliable, well-made, and priced right. I've never had one die on me and the only reason I've owned so many is that they eventually can't hold enough of my media! To this day, I still use the first 60 GB drive I bought for twice this price!

The WD My Passport is a very compact, lightweight drive perfect for students or professionals. It's not much larger than a deck of standard playing cards and weighs just a bit more. It uses a USB 3.0 interface, which allows for faster file transfer speeds, but you'll need a computer with the right connection.

How can you tell? Basically, if your Mac was purchased before June 2012, it most likely has the slower USB 2.0 ports. All NEW Macs, however, have USB 3.0 ports. If you're not sure, another way to tell is if you look at your USB ports--if it's blue, you're good--if it's white, it's still USB 2.0. USB 3.0 is backwards compatible, though, so it'll still work on a USB 2.0 port; you just won't see the speed increase--it'll transfer at USB 2.0 speeds. Also, USB 3.0's theoretical speeds aren't as fast as Apple's ThunderBolt, but it's the cheaper option. Still, it's a huge speed difference over the older USB 2.0 standard. As an example, I transferred a 25 GB video file from my MacPro to the drive in under 5 minutes; my old USB 2.0 drive took 14.

If you're a Mac user, this drive comes formatted in HFS, so it'll work for your right out of the box, no problems. If you're a Windows user, you'll have to reformat it to NTFS (or just buy the regular WD drive, which is usually cheaper and comes formatted for Windows). If you're planning on going between the two platforms, however, you'll need to format it in exFAT using a Windows computer. An exFAT drive will work on any Mac OS running Snow Leopard (10.6.5 ) or later, but you'll need to install a driver for use on Linux. Another final option is to buy a third-party program, like Paragon for Mac, which allows users to write to NTFS volumes, or MacDrive for PC, which mounts HFS volumes.

All the technobabble aside, this is a standard 5400 rpm external hard drive that's great for shuttling around large files, and with the faster USB 3.0 speeds, is great for on-the-go editing of raw video footage in Final Cut on a Macbook Pro. For reliability, price, size, and convenience, it's an easy five stars!

56 of 56 people found the following review helpful.
Essential for the Retina Macbook Pro.
By Sledman
I've had the drive a few weeks and use it almost daily. I purchased a new Macbook Pro Retina and thought I could live with the 256 SSD drive in it. Turns out I was dead wrong. Even with streamlining my apps, not using it to store music and movies I still filled up the drive very quickly. I use this drive for everything, Dropbox,G-drive, movies, music etc. So far works great and the USB 3.0 is fast. Highly recommended. I do have a couple of notes:

1. This is the same as the standard 1T My Passport, only it comes pre-formated for mac (and has the "for mac" writing on it). You can buy and format the standard and it will be the same thing. I got this version because, I like the color and it was $15 cheaper at the time then the standard version and it saves me the 2 minutes of reformatting the drive.

2. It's very small and very light. I have an older My Passport and it's giant compared to this thing. The case is also plastic. Would have been nice to have aluminum for added protection but it seems sturdy. Also the aluminum and black will match your mac perfectly if thats what your going for.

3. After I received it and commuted for a bit I realized I probably should get a case for it. After looking online I decided on the Amazon Basics case. I can report it looks great, functions perfectly and adds the extra protection I was looking for so If I drop my bag I wont have to worry about the drive.

Again, If you need a great drive at a fair price then this is the one.

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iHome iHM61 3.5mm Aux Color Changing Portable Mono Speaker

iHome iHM61 3.5mm Aux Color Changing Portable Mono Speaker..

Special Price iHome iHM61 3.5mm Aux Color Changing Portable Mono Speaker By iHome

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73 of 77 people found the following review helpful.
Amazing!
By C. Brown
I've had this speaker for a week now. It is pretty amazing. It puts out a lot of sound for such a small speaker. The battery lasts a long time, too. I haven't had to charge it since I got it. I really like it!

70 of 75 people found the following review helpful.
mini speaker!!!
By Corazon Peralta
for me, this is the perfect portable speaker in the planet. you can clearly differentiate the treble and the bass sound. you will never imagine that a speaker as small as this will produce a very loud sound!!!

110 of 122 people found the following review helpful.
Awesome Product!
By BBAD
^^^ NJRG,

You want to complain about price, you get what you pay for. For $25 I am very happy with this product. Mine is plastic, no it doesn't have a quality feel, but the sound is awesome for such small device. I'm thinking about buying a splitter and adding another speaker. I am thoroughly happy and WILL be recommending this to family and friends.I am currently sitting at the Virgin Islands and can CLEARLY hear the bass and treble OVER the loud waves and people while sitting on the beach (:

ALL, don't let one negative person influence you to not buy this.

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Memorex Portable CD Boombox with AM FM Radio

Memorex Portable CD Boombox with AM FM Radio..

Special Price Memorex Portable CD Boombox with AM FM Radio By Memorex

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81 of 83 people found the following review helpful.
Basic Single CD Player with AM/FM Radio
By Scott D. Welch
This Memorex 3221 is a basic, single CD player with an AM/FM radio. The unit itself functions as it should, it plays CDs (music and CD audio books) with no issues. I have never experienced any skipping or instances of non-play. With music the range is pretty good all the way around, high, mid and bass. With the volume too high you may experience some distortion depending on the type of music. For audio books I find that the sound is crisp and clear.

The radio works as good as you can get radio reception. By that I mean if you live in an area with poor, not-so-good, reception that is what you will get. My area is pretty good so I am able to get a large range of stations, though this is used primarily for book CDs.

There is an AUX IN port in the front and this can be used to connect an MP3 player (with the correct cable) if you want to have a much longer selection of music playing. There is no option allowing use of headphones or ear buds. The lid over the CD is pressed down and it pops up to either insert or remove a CD. It runs on either AC or with six (6) "C" batteries. I have never used batteries so I have no idea how long they would last, but it does add a portability feature allowing you to take it to a place where there are no electrical outlets.

My reason for the 3 star review is that this is just your average everyday single CD player/AM-FM radio with no real bells and whistles. If that is all you want or need, this should work fine.

39 of 41 people found the following review helpful.
Simple, Compact and does the job
By judith a foster
Purchased as a gift for an elderly friend, the buttons and knobs are on the top of the Boombox where they can be easily found and the CD loads from the top which makes it easier. Does what she needs it to do without a lot of confusion on how to operate it.

34 of 36 people found the following review helpful.
Perfect for us
By R. Yates
I purchased this boombox for my dad to use in his dusty workshop. He loves it. The cds do not skip, and the radio picks up the stations in our area very well. For the price, it is a good product.

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Garmin RV 760LMT Portable GPS Navigator

Garmin RV 760LMT Portable GPS Navigator..

GET Garmin RV 760LMT Portable GPS Navigator By Garmin

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92 of 92 people found the following review helpful.
Great on the road, not so great around town
By M. Ayars
I'm on a 3 month RV trip traveling to Florida. I like the weather alerts that tell you where you are relative to the alert, I like the RV routing and the updated maps and points of interest like gas stations. This replaced an older Garmin, so I like the directions logic.
However, especially in metropolitan areas, it tends to freeze, but not tell you it's having an issue. You keep going waiting for a voice prompt for a turn, then look at the map display and realize it's back at your last turn. You have to return to the map main menu then go to the map display again, and then it recalculates your route.

Not sure if it's a bug, but if it keeps doing this I will talk to Garmin about it.
UPDATE: I downloaded a software update that seems to have resolved the freeze issues.

87 of 89 people found the following review helpful.
Great RV dedicated GPS!
By Brian C Domian
We bought this for use in our Tiffin Allegro and its fantastic to have an up to date GPS specifically for an RV. I realize that this is a new application for the Garmin trucking line but it works great just like the Zumo I have for my motorcycles Garmin has done a fantastic job of tailoring for the intended user. It is easy to set this up for the specifics of your RV and to also switch into the auto mode. The Bluetooth interface with my iPhone works great and the weather data is fantastic (especially the radar presentation). The only small recommendation I have is that you probably want one of the "bean bag" mounts as for most RV's the suction cup mount on the windshield is probably too far away for easy use.

65 of 67 people found the following review helpful.
Great GPS - as expected from Garmin!
By Charlie
My wife and I used this RV GPS on our trip from CT to FL, and it worked flawlessly! We have a 26' long Chalet Truck Camper when sitting on my Ford F350 dually, and it is 12'-3" tall. It routed us, with our guidance, across Rt 64 W to Scranton, PA, then down 81 to 77 to 95 completely missing any traffic or low bridges! What we particularly liked is that when the speed limit changed, a tone sounded and a small banner on top notified you of the change, and how soon. Also, a similar banner appeared when you were 5 miles from a state border. One of the nicest features is a 'rolling exit'. This happened only a couple of times, but it was when the exit was particularly challenging, and it simulated 'moving' lanes, not a static picture, and which one to be in to take the correct exit - spectacular!!' Another great feature was the 'pop up gas/bank/food' icons along the route. I also checked out numerous campgrounds, and they were all listed, with full site information including telephone numbers to make reservations! I have had several Garmin GPS's, and this one is truly the best, and clearly embodies all the best features from its previous generations! Would highly recommend!

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