Transcend, Pimp my MacBook: memory expansion using JetDrive Lite (completed competition)

Remember XZibit and his legendary show "Pimp My Ride"? In short, we skreativili idea and as we blog Apple, Apple will be dimmed technique. With their own hands, using a piece of iron available in the market, thanks to which our and your favorite iDevices will become faster, higher, stronger.

We begin to upgrade the MacBook. Gifted joke: "Do you want to upgrade to Mac? Buy a new Mac ». In fact, at the apple laptops great potential in terms of tuning. Look at your Air or Retina Pro. There, on the right you can see the slot for the memory card? When the last time you used it? Let's find the case for this hole, OK?

From now on, instead of it we will have built additional high-speed storage capacity JetDrive Lite 128 GB by Transcend. Generally it is not necessary to tell especially about Transcend. You already know very well that this company has the reputation of a very steep maker of all that is associated with memory. And yet these guys released a bunch of cool items specifically for the MacBook, including memory extension cards JetDrive Lite volume of 64 and 128 GB for the MacBook Air and MacBook Retina Pro.

This is not some dull flash drive sticking out of the housing, and a stylish compact device that is made so that perfect to sit in the laptop, not interfering with the work and transportation, and harmoniously complementing the overall landscape. See. That's JetDrive Lite sits in our Retina Pro.

No foreignness, cover stands literally a millimeter, and it is only in order that it can be extracted as needed. Beauty, is not it?

A feature of MacBook line are small structural differences in the memory card slot. Put simply, the different models of the card body is buried in at slightly different distances. With this in mind, Transcend make separate versions of JetDrive Lite literally under every laptop model, starting from the end of the Air in 2010 and ending with the 13- and 15-inch Retina Pro mid 2014. Perfect fit is guaranteed, yeah.

Now incredulous reader asks: "Well, sawed the stick, and Che, everything?". No, not all. Call Transcend JetDrive Lite «just a memory stick" is technically incorrect. If correct, this SSD-like MLC-flash-drive. Or super-fast Ultra-drive is protected with enhanced data security, soldered on the principle of Chip-On-Board in a monolithic and dust- waterproof casing and special software JetDrive Toolbox, allowing one-click restore accidentally and deliberately deleted from data storage device.

For a bunch of words hidden quite specific figures. Speed ​​Reading - up to 95 MB / sec. Recording Speed ​​- up to 60 MB / sec. Average values ​​may vary depending on the specific situation and notebook model, and we've got this:

For what is needed Transcend JetDrive Lite? Maybe the backups Time Machine? Yes, perfectly. iTunes Library? Sumptuously. Just repository for all needs? Of course! Reformat JetDrive Lite in exFAT, to get cross-platform universal repository? Oh yeah!

After all, MacBook additional 128 gigs a place - it is in any case better than the MacBook without additional 128 gigs of space.

Especially for such a ridiculous price. This thing is really worth is not expensive. Not that our next column hero - Terabyte SSD-Schnick with a set of screwdrivers "Change yourself" and cover with a USB 3.0 interface for reuse old SSD as a removable disk. Oh, this is a spoiler. In general, wait for the next post «MacBook Ride" buy yourself Transcend JetDrive Lite and download them all online.

Transcend JetDrive Lite

competition results

So, today, December 25, and then it's time to announce the results of the competition. Happy owner of a high-speed memory card Transcend JetDrive Lite 64GB becomes Nikita iNik Gusakov. Nikita, heartily congratulate you and your MacBook! We will contact you through your sotsprofil. And do not forget often look to us for MakRadar. Tell you a secret, it's not the last accessory Transcend's, which we played. ;)