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MCE OptiBay

Hard Drive Bay for MacBooks

Link: MCE Technologies

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MCE OptiBay

The MCE OptiBay is an internal bay for a 2.5″ SATA hard drive for MacBooks, MacBook Pros and PowerBook G4′s, that swaps out the Superdrive (which for a lot of people gets used only rarely).  You can order the OptiBay on its own (just a bare enclosure) or along with an extra hard drive.  You can instal it yourself or have it installed by MCE.  For the time being, it comes bundled with an external USB2 enclosure for the Superdrive as well.

The original Superdrive is connected to the laptop via an IDE/P-ATA connection, so the new hard drive should be running on P-ATA bus speed only.  Apple’s DVD Player will not launch with the externalised Superdrive, but you can use other applications including the open source VLC.

Another HDD Enclosure

Back in Episode 67, Leo had a good tease at Dick over the CompUSA HDD Enclosure, only to regret that he didn’t have one to back up that week’s recordings, which were lost.  Dick is much kinder this time about Leo’s OptiBay, which is far more expensive as a bare hard drive bay, even for a Mac and a notebook.

Leo’s Corsair SSD

Earlier in April Leo installed a Corsair 128GB solid-state drive (Corsair CMFSSD-128GBG1D) on his MacBook Pro.  Applications now launched instantly.  The trade-off was a smaller hard drive capacity.  With the OptiBay Leo has now reinstalled the original 320GB hard drive into his notebook.

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Dr Mark Sukoenig confesses that he is writing with “multiful” purposes.  The first one is to say that when he listens to the Daily Giz Wiz, he thinks of Dick and Leo as friends and finds himself with commentary to inject.  He hears their quips, and it’s almost as if he had met them and visited their apartments, not once but twice.  The second purpose is to wish his older brother Alan a happy 68th birthday on 9 September, who lives 23 blocks away from Dick, and 5 blocks away from the original site of the Women’s Hospital on Manhattan’s 110th Street, where Leo (and Mark himself, see Episode 342 and Episode 64) was born.

A Multi-Million Dollar Idea

Dick has a bright spark all of a sudden.  Since Leo is still a wedding minister, he should get Citrix to produce a new program, GoToWedding.  People can get married and attend weddings without being there.  Leo thinks Jennifer might like the idea.

Screw-You Sticker

TWiT is going to have some vinyl stickers made.  The designer has given Leo a freebie, a sticker that says “Remember kids, Uncle Leo says … Screw You!”

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