Western Digital WD Passport Edge for Mac USB3 Hard Drive Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the my passport Edge for Mac but don't
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hit that dislike button yet I actually don't have a good reason for you to not
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hit the dislike button you know what if you want to show Apple who boss you know
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you really want to stick it to Tim Cook for having the audacity to you know
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release products that are branded and for other companies to release Apple
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branded you know what go ahead dislike this video go ahead don't take a second
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right now press dislike on the video it'll be worth it you will get the
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satisfaction that comes from sticking it to the man because I actually don't care
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if you dislike the video I it's still YouTube um what are they called
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interactions or engagement it's still engagement I don't care dislike the
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video go for it uh so moving right along the contents are a portable hard drive
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USB cable WD security W WD drive
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utilities and a quick install guide the compatibility it is formatted HFS Plus
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journaled for macOS 10 lion or mountain lion requires reformatting for Windows
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OS so yes this is a mac Drive Apple drive formatted for apple and O it's
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nice why is it that the PC Drive is always like see I'm going to where is
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the PC Drive where's the PC version it's around here somewhere there it is okay
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so explain this to me why do the Apple guys get all the cool stuff see look at
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this here's the my passport Edge like
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for PC this is the NTFS formatted one it's
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plastic see look at how nice this one is this is an aluminum casing it's even is
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it even thinner it's thinner see look it's
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thinner it's thinner it's metal it's like sexy see look at that anodized fin
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on there and then the it's like two-tone metal they did a dark anodization for
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the top it overlaps down here on the usb3
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interface oh this thing's amazing and this is this
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is okay anyway I'm not going to be I'm not going to be angry about this because
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the good news is even if you're a PC guy you can still buy this and you can use
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it with your PC and you cannot use it with Apple Time Machine which it does
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happen to be compatible with for backing up your Mac it can also back up your PC
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though Hardware encryption with password protection keeps your data private so
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that's a really good thing as well and not dependent on using it on an Apple it
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is slimmer the image is not actual size although I don't understand for the life
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of me why they couldn't have put an image that's the actual size there ultra
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slim all metal password and encryption and I think that pretty much covers it so there's also an included USB 3 cable
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which will work in USB 2 mode no problem whatsoever we're going to go ahead and
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plug that in in spite of the fact that Apple didn't even deem it necessary to
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implement usb3 until the very latest generation of products you know we've
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had USB 3 on the PC for a long time
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Bam um it's a hard drive thank you for
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checking out my unboxing and first look at the my passport Edge for Mac from
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Western Digital don't forget to subscribe plan Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer
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videos and you look even look at this the Western Digital logo on this one is
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just silk screened see it has no texture to it at all the Western Digital logo on
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this is actually like embossed it's like a it's like textured like metallic thing
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on top of the