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News in a moment, but first a word from connected data, maker of the transporter and sponsor of this week's Mac OS can.

One of the points that I've mentioned before was the fact that you pay once with Transporter and you're done.

But I don't think we've ever broken down how much you pay, or how little, depending on how you look at

it.

Transporter comes in three sizes.

Eh, kind of.

No drive, if you want to go out and buy your own drive.

That'll run your $199.1 terabyte for $299 or 2 terabytes for 399.

Now I've been told that 1 terabyte of storage on one of the cloudy box type services is $700 a year.

So if you buy a transporter with a one terabyte drive, you're saving $400 off the bat. Then the next year, you're

not paying anything. And the year after that, you're not paying anything. Or you could have paid

a total of $2,100 to the Cloudy Box service over three years.

You can actually get a 2 terabyte transporter for less than renting 1 terabyte for one year in the sky.

Heck, 100 gigabytes in the box is $99 a year,

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