Review: Lexar's 8GB ExpressCard SSD with backup software
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In case you havent been keeping up with the Geeks and Nerds, welcome to the brave new world of the ExpressCard -- and whether you leave home without it or not, youd better be prepared for it if you buy a new laptop.
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In his in-depth review of Time Machine, Ryan Faas  does some dÃ©jÃ -vuing of his own, conjuring up an early iMac commercial to illustrate how simple it is for customers to use Time Machine to back up the data on their Macs. Calling it âone of the most compelling new features added to Mac OS X in years,â he praises Apple engineers for creating âa backup technology that requires little or no configuration, performs backups automatically and invisibly, and makes restoring files from those backups as simple and intuitive as humanly possible.â
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The DVDirect VRD-MC3 stresses two extremely important attributes: simplicity and reproduction quality.
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The easy use drives provide automatic file backup and synchronization capabilities for Macs and PCs.
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Of all the comments on the hard drive, and there have been hundreds, this one explains it best. I'm sorry to hear about your experience at the Apple Store. I was a "genius" for a year and can assure you that the policy regarding HDs was frustrating to us as well. In warranty it wasn't so hard to justify, but out of warranty customers often had a problem with it. My recommendation to them (and to you) is the same. AASPs often do not have the same contractual obligations with HD manufacturers that Apple does, so they may very well let you keep it. If you still wanted to have it done through an Apple store, take a magnet to it before you hand it over. The techs have better things to do than trawl through your personal data (there are exceptions, of course), but if it sets your mind at ease- go for it. Honestly, I would do this in your position because I have read of people getting reman drives with other people's data still on them. But that would have nothing to do with Apple and everything to do with the companies contracted to remanufacture the HDs.Not much more to say after that. I will probably write a summary tomorrow.
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Photocopying wallet information pays off.
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Drives in PCs and media centres from 2005
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The JVC Everio GZ-MC100 ($1199.95) and GZ-MC200 ($1299.95) will use 4GB Microdrive cards, which are removable hard drives measuring 1.5 inches square, but will also support standard CompactFlash and Secure Digital media.
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Solid state drives (SSDs) have moved another step closer to being a useful option for the enterprise, with Dell&#39;s announcement late last week of two new portable systems that will feature SSD as a storage option. The two new models are the ultramobile Latitude D430 notebook and the Precision M4300 mobile workstation.
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âApple has done well with Aperture 2.0, based on my test of ingesting and editing a batch of my own photos on a dual-core iMac,â remarks Stephen Shankland in a recent article on CNET.  And, he points out, heâs not the only one to notice the dramatic performance gains:  âI feel like someone snuck a new CPU into my machine,â gushed photographer Josh Anon in a Wednesday blog posting.â  âOn top of a general performance boost,â Shankland continues, Aperture 2 delivers âa new preview mode that specifically emphasizes speed,â an entirely ânew raw-processing engineâ that delivers significant advantages, and a variety of other new features, as well.
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Solid-state drives may replace hard drives as future storage devices on computers, but not until their price plummets. Alienware has SSDs and other cool hardware on its latest PCs, the Area-51 ALX and Aurora ALX desktops, but its prices rise with the SSDs. Innovation is also the appeal of Plantronics&#39; Calisto Pro Series, a sophisticated hands-free telephone system that merges wired, wireless, and online communications into one system. Moving to the kitschy, Saitek allows users to personalize PC scrolling by inserting a printed picture on a mouse top.The future of PC storageAlienware provides a glimpse of future PC storage with its Area-51 ALX and Aurora ALX desktop PCs, which come with 64GB SSDs (solid-state drives).Boot and program load times are quicker with SSDs and they are more reliable, Alienware says. They also consume less power than hard drives, the company says.However, SSDs are expensive. An SSD-free Aurora ALX system with Windows Vista Ultimate, running Advanced Micro Devices&#39;s Athlon 64 X2 6000 64-bit processor, a Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX graphics card, 2GB of memory, a Logitech gaming keyboard, and a 320GB hard drive costs $4,099. The price jumps to $5,799 when the hard drive is replaced with two 64GB SSDs.Hard drives provide more storage capabilities than SSDs, so it&#39;s smart to hold off until SSDs become competitive on price and storage capacity.Both PCs are available at Alienware&#39;s Web site.AAA to the rescue, againThere may be a Chinese restaurant a few blocks away, but is it good? AAA Mobile&#39;s GPS-based travel guide for mobile phones not only provides directions to the restaurant, but also shows how it rates. The ratings feature gives it a leg up over GPS services that provide only locations and directions.The service also gives hotel ratings and point of interests recommended by the AAA service. That is helpful for tourists and pedestrians wiggling around big cities in search of places to eat and sleep. Users can bookmark the locations.The 100,000 listings provided by the service may be tiny, but it could start a trend of more GPS systems adding recommendations and ratings.It works only on mobile phones in the United States with Verizon Wireless&#39;s service and is available for $9.99 a month.Make the mouse your ownInnovation on mice hasn&#39;t hit a wall -- Saitek&#39;s Photo Mouse lets people customize the top of a mouse with printed pictures, making it fun to use. A hatch on the top of the mouse opens up, where a picture can be inserted. The idea is to personalize a mouse, said Mark Starrett, Saitek&#39;s director of marketing, in a statement. But then pictures of loved ones can be placed on a mousepad or as PC wallpaper too, so pick your choice. The kitschy $19.95 wired optical mouse works with Windows and Mac systems.Converged communicationsPlantronics&#39; Calisto Pro Series is a hands-free telephone system that combines wired, wireless, and online communications into one unit. The system can take landline, mobile phone or VoIP calls either through a wireless handset or Bluetooth headset.A desk-based base station houses and recharges the wireless handset and a Bluetooth headset. The handset operates at a range of up to 300 feet (91 meters), according to Plantronics. Users can also download up to 200 Microsoft Outlook contacts from a PC to the handset.A Bluetooth headset not only takes calls from landlines, it also directly connects to a Bluetooth-compatible mobile phones. A PC connects to the base station through a USB port to accept VoIP calls.Despite a clunky base station, Calisto Pro is a productive device to have for multiple forms of communication. It became available in the United States in September for $279.95.
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Seagate&#39;s native SATA interface technology with Native Command Queuing (NCQ) allows the Barracuda 7200.8 to match the performance of 10,000-rpm SATA drives without sacrificing capacity
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Solid-state drives are increasingly an option for laptop purchasers -- but while manufacturers are pushing the option, few consumers are taking the bait.
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Device offers remote programming, features a whopping 400GB of storage.
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Promise of less transfer time Lexar has launched a range of Ultra Direct Memory Access (UDMA) cards that write data at 45MB per second potentially reducing download time for digital photos considerably.â¦
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Meritline has a 2.5" hard drive enclosure, perfect for spare notebook drives, for just $10.99 shipped.
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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced  semiconductor technology, announced that it has begun mass producing  1.8-inch solid state drives (SSD) at 64GB (gigabytes) --  the highest density SSD available today for mobile computing  applications.