Yes, I use a small LaCie Firewire (bus-powered) hard drive of 40Gb to
go with my iBook. It works very well and I keep it steady while it
is powered up.
My iBook works fine on the move though. I decided to install OS10.4
(Tiger) just before going to an appointment. It took far longer than
I anticipated so I shut up the iBook, expecting it to go to sleep
while I walked to my appointment, about 20 minutes away. Well, when
I opened it in the pub (it was an appointment in a pub ... ;-)) the
screen was blank. I cursed myself for my impatience, thinking that I
had broken something, but it was merely restarting, having completed
the installation on the move!
I love my little iBook ...
Chris
~~ >-)-
C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
+44 (0)7092 251126
www.threeshoes.co.uk
homepage.mac.com/zuiko
On 18 Aug 2005, at 17:35, Peter Leyssens wrote:
> Well, yes, but I don't use it on the road. A friend recently asked me
> to play the music at his party, so I ripped a pile of CDs, copied them
> to the little hard drive (which was sitting firmly on a desk),
> unplug-move-plug and I've got everything in another place. Fits
> into a
> shirt pocket. And when they're not in use, it's quite safe to move
> hard
> drives.
>
> But your point is of course very valid regarding laptop use. I
> drag my
> laptop to the other room sometimes, because my printer is there & it's
> not connected to the network. I tend to be very careful when moving
> laptops, but I've seen other people behave differently (don't
> compute &
> drive !). Not to mention laptops that accidentally power on while
> in a
> backpack...
>
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