Following my comments earlier in the thread I just received my Seagate backup plus slim (1TB silver color) today. Actually the box says "Backup plus portable drive" and the supplied quick guide says it's for the "Backup plus portable drive" as well as for the "Backup slim". I thought the name was "Backup plus slim" so I'm a little confused if there are two models or just one with a couple of names
First impression is good. Small (how can they fit the drive and a SATA-USB bridge board inside -perhaps a 7mm height drive)?), feels sturdy even though it's not all metal (bottom is black plastic, top is thin brushed aluminum), light, but not too light (feels quality) and looks stylish and modern (brushed silver aluminum top, thin and classy white activity LED).
Heat doesn't seem to be as much as my 5 year old 160GB Glyph Portagig 800 (all metal Firewire 800/USB2 enclosure) with a Seagate drive inside. Perhaps technology has improved since then or the Glyph drive actually takes up more heat in order to better cool the drive inside. I don't know.
Appearancewise it looks great but doesn't completely match my Macbook Pro as the computer doesn't have a brushed metal surface, but it's close enough (for me) and still looks good IMHO. I'm not willing to pay $$$ extra just because it's labelled "a Mac drive". It came with some PC/Mac software on the drive which I've backed up but not cared to try out as I already have backup software which works fine for me (
Time Machine and
Chronosync). The drive came pre-formatted NTFS (PC format), so I opened up
Disk Utility and reformatted it again (MacOS extended (Journaled)) then set Time Machine to use it.