The MacBook Pro battery is a pretty good battery. However you might find yourself in those critical situations where you’d have to take over the world. And we all know such a plan will surely deplete your laptop battery fast.

The external battery in the picture above is meant to get you that extra power you need. The external battery will get you from 6 to 10 hours which isn’t bad at all. It plugs into your Mac like your regular power cord would and you’re off to work.

Howerver this battery costs $450. Not that much, but then again pretty expensive. Don’t just buy it yet. Let’s wait and see what next Tuesday is going to bring

SimpleTech has improved their catalog of external hard-drives by introducing two new products: a Pro Drive with 1.5TB, and a Duo Pro Drive with 3TB. Can this big amount of storage capacity be used for personal stuff? Maybe if the person behind the computer makes video collections, maybe not…

Anyway, both drives have 4 possible connection modes: FireWire 800, FireWire 400, the usual USB 2.0, and the fast eSATA that is able make transfers at 3Gb per second. A good add-on to the Pro and Duo Pro Drives is the offer of (free) online storage, with a maximum capacity of 2GB.

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