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Iomega eGo Helium :: A MacBook Air Partner [Review]

0xCAFE

0xCAFE

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Hi guys,

I have recently got a eGo Helium from Iomega! It looks similar to a MacBook Air, but also fits nice with an aluminum MacBook Pro. You can read my review of it here:

iomega eGo Helium :: A MacBook Air Partner [Review]

Any lucky MacBook Air owners around here? Check out the pictures, I really like the little harddrive. Comments are welcomed on my blog too!

Thx!
 
0xCAFE said:
Hi guys,

I have recently got a eGo Helium from Iomega! It looks similar to a MacBook Air, but also fits nice with an aluminum MacBook Pro. You can read my review of it here:

iomega eGo Helium :: A MacBook Air Partner [Review]

Any lucky MacBook Air owners around here? Check out the pictures, I really like the little harddrive. Comments are welcomed on my blog too!

Thx!
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I tried to use the eGo Helium on my MacBook 1.1 through a powered hub and it caused kernel panics.

I eventually used a Dual Inputs USB power cable:

http://www.addonics.com/products/power_adapter/usb_power_cable.asp

and have not had any problems since.

The eGo instructions tell you that the drive must be connected directly to the computer's USB port and not run through a hub, but this Dual Inputs USB power cable solves the powered hub issue.

I used superduper to create a bootable clone of the MacBook's drive onto the eGo Helium and it boots without a hitch.

This is a great looking drive and is easy to transport.

BTW Here is the English translated link to your site:

http://translate.google.com/transla...aire-pour-votre-macbook-air-test/&sl=fr&tl=en
 
Thanks for the information.

By the way you didn't have to add the Translation, I already have a translation bar with 10 languages on the right section of my blog! :D

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0xCAFE said:
Thanks for the information.

By the way you didn't have to add the Translation, I already have a translation bar with 10 languages on the right section of my blog! :D

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Oops...

I'm obviously visually challenged :D
 
I like the design, I just might get one if the price is right. Glad to see Iomega still around.

I still got one of there SCSI disk drives and a load of 100meg disk around some where.
 
wizzracer said:
I like the design, I just might get one if the price is right. Glad to see Iomega still around.

I still got one of there SCSI disk drives and a load of 100meg disk around some where.
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Yup, there's still there, not as strong as in the 90s, but they have a more diverse offer including multimedia gizmos.

100MB disk! Wow, that's a good piece of history! Thinking that in those days some of us were still using 1.44MB disks... :p
 
0xCAFE said:
Yup, there's still there, not as strong as in the 90s, but they have a more diverse offer including multimedia gizmos.

100MB disk! Wow, that's a good piece of history! Thinking that in those days some of us were still using 1.44MB disks... :p
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Yea me too. Most OEM machines had a IOMEGA drive for the 100 and 250 disk.

Then I had to buy the hugh 1gig-2gig drive. I got my schooling on SCSI IRQ assignment that year.:eek:
 
That was cool! You would be loading MS-DOS in the higher memory because it was faster (and noticebly faster too!), using virtual drives and kept on typing /? to get help!

Man, those were the days! I guess lots of the kids around here don't know what we are taking about since they were probably introduced to Win98 or WinME...

MS-DOS, Norton Commander (I think) was speaking the word "Norton" through the PC speaker when loading! Now, I'm all nostalgic.. :eek:
 
cd\enter
copy A:\*.* b:\

You could look at each block on the drive with Norton and see what was stored there.:eek:

I recovered a deleted file one block at a time with it. It took four hours to find all of it.:mad:
 
Nice! :D

My dad still had an old 8086 green monitor in his office until like 2 years ago when it burnt and let black smoke all of a sudden! That was tough technology, 80x25 all the way!
 
Monochrome monitors, and my super fast 400baud modem. Computer shopper would come out once a month with all those 800 number BBS's. I spent weeks setting up those dialing strings to call each one to send mail "first mail box" and trade;) programs.

You could hit Ctrl+***** secret key, to get all the good stuff. and news groups were free!:cool:
 
Ah, see, I'm just a little too young for the BBS, tried it a few times with my 4200 bauds modem (phone on modem), but I prefered my Nintendo :p

Nonetheless, we know what it's like waiting for data to be transmitted, bytes by seconds, not megabytes!
 
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