By • 5:22 am, November 5, 2010 • Apple’s not ready to throw their hat into the USB 3.0 ring just yet. As Steve Jobs made abundantly clear in an last week, Cupertino’s doesn’t see USB 3.0 taking off, at least until Intel starts officially supporting it and evidence suggests that Apple might avoid USB 3.0 entirely in favor of. But what if you want USB 3.0 on your Mac now? Well, Apple’s not serving up official drivers yet, but LaCie’s stepping up to fill the void: they’ve just announced for their line of solutions.

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It cannot handle mailto: links, and cannot compose, display, or archive messages. It should currently be able to give you notifications of new messages pretty consistently, but has not been thoroughly tested, so please if you run across a bug. Gmail for mac by zive. What Gmail Notifier is not Gmail Notifier is not a fully-featured email client.

To get USB 3.0 on your Mac, first you’ll need to buy one of LaCie’s cards: either a $49.99 USB 3.0 PCI Express Card or the $59.99 USB 3.0 ExpressCard/34, both of which will bring a couple of USB 3.0 (and backwards compatible USB 2.0) ports to your Mac Pro or MacBook. Then install the free driver and you’re ready to pick yourself up one of those blindingly flash USB 3.0 external drives that are all the rage right now.

Not a bad solution for Mac Pros, but ExpressCards can be fairly irritating to have hanging out of a MacBook, and obviously this won’t help you if you’ve got a MacBook Air, Mac mini or iMac. Still, if you’re committed to being on the cutting edge, LaCie’s happy to take your cash and make it happen.

As I mentioned in our last post,. Our Mac Mini is going to have to do some heavy lifting - distributing music and HD video to AppleTVs throughout the house.

We may need to buy the latest and greatest. But I'm also a huge proponent of buying used, last-generation Apple equipment. So let's take a look at how the Mac Mini has changed over the years, in terms of form and function. Why Buy Apple Used?

When it comes to Apple gear, there can be substantial cost savings in acquiring last-years model. The most obvious example is the iPhone. For years, it was possible to buy last-year's model for cheap, and a 2-year-old phone for free with contract. But it's tough for a gadget enthusiast to walk around with an old phone.

It's out in the open. It's in your hand all the time. Most people upgrade their iPhones so often, we don't have them long enough for them to become 'old'. I've upgraded every 2 years since the iPhone 3G. That's a new phone every time they update the form factor, skipping every S generation. People don't upgrade their iPads as often, and they upgrade their computers even less often. Because the upgrade cycles are so much longer, the 'old' version is still 'acceptable' for several years after release.