Ridiculous MyPassport Upgrade

WD External Drives External Drives for Mac
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So we have been waiting for a long time for 2TB capacity MyPassport drives. A few weeks back they came out.

But, we are in 2012, when one buys a high capacity drive it is generally for 2 or 3 years duration…

…And the upgraded 2TB MyPassport still comes with USB 2.0 and Firewires for a way higher price than regular MyPassport, not TB or even USB 3.0???

Western Digital must really think Mac customer are stupid…

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Considering there’s no Mac on the market that supports USB3.0, and unknown whether new ones even will, and Thunderbolt is a proprietary interface that carries a licensing charge with it that would increase the cost of the drive, just what is it you want here?

Maybe some cheese with your whine?

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Being french, getting wine and cheese is not hard.

Being a hard drive manufacturer that already implemented USB 3 on other MyPassport, upgrading it for Mac should have been easy so it’s at least USB 3 ready.

This is commercially unrespectfully of the customer: someone who buys a MyPassport for Mac (and I don’t see why they would know), it means that when the new Macs are released, his MyPassport will be obsolete and slow just a few month after buying it… 

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Mate,

With all due respect just don’t buy it. There are different brands besides WD, but complaining here won’t do anything for you because this is a user to user forum. However, you can go to the Ideas section and post it.