Please help me choose the best one. I need something to back up my files as I only have 7 gigs remaining on my MBP. I need it to be fast because I'll be working primarily with video/editing and playing.

At the same time I don't want to shell out $300 or anything.

The only external 1TB they have here at USC is the LaCie designed by Neil whoever, looks pretty but the specs seemed pretty slow (480mb/s) at $120.

Thanks for the advice in advance.

pFiled under: a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/analysisopinion/" rel="tag"Analysis / Opinion/a, a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/gaming/" rel="tag"Gaming/a, a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/hardware/" rel="tag"Hardware/a, a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/software/" rel="tag"Software/a, a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/odds-and-ends/" rel="tag"Odds and ends/a, a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/apple/" rel="tag"Apple/a/pdiv align="center"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2008/11/cpumarkspcworld.jpg" alt="" /br //div Finally, someone with more money that I have (I want a new MacBook Pro, but haven't yet convinced myself to shell out the dough to replace my old yet trusty G4 12" Powerbook) has put the new MBP and a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/10/14/new-macbook-pro/"those shiny graphics chips/a to the test, and a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/154004/new_macbook_pro_boot_camp_gaming_benchmarks.html"drummed up some real benchmarking numbers/a in Boot Camp. It turns out to be PC World, strangely enough. And the verdict? Well, it's not quite so great.br /br /The good news is that the MacBook Pro is faster than ever, and graphics have significantly improved. And trust us, any improvement over the old chips is a step in the right direction. br /br /The bad news is that in a practical situation (like playing a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crysis"the emCrysis/em demo/a, which is actually about a year old at this point), a MacBook Pro in Boot Camp at the highest settings isn't actually playable, and the 15 fps you might squeeze out of it on a good day still can't compare to a href="http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1211/2/crysis_demo_performance_analysis/index.html"the 50 fps you can get out of even average video cards/a in a Windows PC. If the graphics are turned down, it's a different story -- a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/10/16/putting-the-macbook-through-the-paces-with-warhammer-online/"we've seen a new MBP run games well/a in Boot Camp already, so it'll play, but Apple still has a ways to go to be competitive with brand new games.br /br /But let's keep this all in perspective -- it's very good news when you compare the new MacBook Pros to the old ones. Apple is at least realizing that 3D performance needs an upgrade in their units. Maybe next time around they can a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/02/22/current-and-future-gaming-on-the-mac/"bring some software updates into the mix/a as well, and we can start to see some real competition in high-end performance.p style="padding:5px;clear:both;"a href="http://www.tuaw.com"TUAW/aa href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/19/new-macbook-pro-benchmarked-within-boot-camp/"New MacBook Pro benchmarked within Boot Camp/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.tuaw.com"The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)/a on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:00:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a.br style="clear:both;"/ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.pcworld.com/article/154004/new_macbook_pro_boot_camp_gaming_benchmarks.htmlRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/19/new-macbook-pro-benchmarked-within-boot-camp/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/forward/1376420/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/19/new-macbook-pro-benchmarked-within-boot-camp/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/qKUGD2EYptrAiS2GUbX0qNepAqM/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/qKUGD2EYptrAiS2GUbX0qNepAqM/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?a=UmlSlT9P"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?i=UmlSlT9P" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?a=yGO3CTo1"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?i=yGO3CTo1" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/tuaw/~4/6gBeTjufEOU" height="1" width="1"/

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We noticed this on AT&T's web store in the wee hours this morning, and sure enough, they've gone ahead and announced the LG Incite in all its official glory today (normally the announcement comes before the web store stuff, but whatever). It's got WiFi, a 3-megapixel camera, a 3-inch touchscreen equipped with haptics and 400 x 240 resolution, AT&T Navigator, microSD support up to 16GB, triband HSDPA, and Windows Mobile 6.1 -- in other words, LG's produced a nice QWERTY-less foil to the Fuze here. It's available straight away in stores, too, as long as you're willing to shell out the $199.99 on contract after rebates.

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pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/cellphones/" rel="tag"Cellphones/a, a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/handhelds/" rel="tag"Handhelds/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/cell-phone-details/?device=LG+INCITEamp;q_sku=sku3140220"img hspace="4" border="0" vspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadgetmobile.com/media/2008/11/lg-incite-att-ofc.jpg" alt="" //abr //div We a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/11/18/lg-incite-for-sale-on-atandts-site-199-99-on-contract/"noticed this/a on ATamp;T's web store in the wee hours this morning, and sure enough, they've gone ahead and announced the LG a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/tag/Incite/"Incite/a in all its official glory today (normally the announcement comes embefore/em the web store stuff, but whatever). It's got WiFi, a 3-megapixel camera, a 3-inch touchscreen equipped with haptics and 400 x 240 resolution, ATamp;T Navigator, microSD support up to 16GB, triband HSDPA, and Windows Mobile 6.1 -- in other words, LG's produced a nice QWERTY-less foil to the a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/tag/Fuze/"Fuze/a here. It's available straight away in stores, too, as long as you're willing to shell out the $199.99 on contract after rebates.p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/lg-incite-for-atandt-now-with-more-official/"LG Incite for ATamp;T, now with more official/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:33:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/cell-phone-details/?device=LG+INCITEamp;q_sku=sku3140220Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/lg-incite-for-atandt-now-with-more-official/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1375794/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/lg-incite-for-atandt-now-with-more-official/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/UGh9pJJI4CHs8mZDF0Xo3kOSMb4/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/UGh9pJJI4CHs8mZDF0Xo3kOSMb4/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=jtPfZIDD"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=jtPfZIDD" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=coyIXimz"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=coyIXimz" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/qmL6ZqeF41Y" height="1" width="1"/