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Wagener
Media is offering CD-RW drive conversions for 1st generation
iBooks. These CD-RWs will work in any of the Colored iBooks - 300,
366, 466 MHz models.
The drive is a 4x4x24x unit, providing these iBooks with a way to
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The price is $145 (requires return of your old drive mechanism
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Rev. A vs. Rev. B TiBooks Benchmarked
And yet more benchmarking, this week Bare Feats' rob ART morgan
got his hands on a new, 550 MHz
TiBook and ran some
comparisons with a Revision A
machine. The Revision B unit offers a bigger performance boost
than you might expect given the modest increase in processor speed,
thanks largely to its doubled VRAM capacity.
It appears that Apple has worked at fixing the TiBook's poky
FireWire throughput performance, although the iBook still has a
slight edge.
Lots of cool graphs
Atek Super Mini Optical Mouse
The Atek
Super Mini is very
small mouse (that is not a redundancy in this instance) is designed
with road warriors in mind.
Features
Perfect for mobile computing - only 2-1/2" long and 1" wide,
small enough to use right on the palm rest of most notebook
computers
Convenient to carry - extremely lightweight and occupies very
little space in a laptop travel case
Smooth and precise optical technology - point and click with
ease, speed, and precision
Left and right buttons, just like a regular mouse
Works on almost any surface - no need for a mousepad
Maintenance-free - no ball or moving parts to clean
USB version for use with Windows 2000, XP, Me, and 98
PS/2 version for use with Windows 2000, XP, Me, 98, NT, and
95
Mac users: USB version is compatible with Mac OS 8.6 or later.
For button programming for OS 8/9 download the Atek free driver or
use USB Overdrive. A
driver is not available yet for OS X, but the right button
does bring up the contextual menu.
Free travel pouch included
Cord length: 3 ft.
Retail price is $49.95
Fuel Cell Powered Laptops Coming?
TechReview's
David Voss says that methanol micro fuel cells will soon be a
reality, quoting Atakan Ozbek, vice president for energy research at
Allied Business Intelligence, in Oyster Bay, NY, predicting that "In
five years this could be potentially a billion-dollar-a-year
market."
Not surprisingly, a race to commercialize the technology is in
full swing and includes everyone from Motorola and Korean electronics
giant Samsung to startup companies like Hockaday's. The competitors
are betting on different designs - and even slightly different
chemistries - but they share a common goal: taking a bite out of the
$6 billion world market for rechargeable batteries.
Fuel cell battery packs small enough to actually fit in the
battery compartments of laptop computers are predicted, which will
essentially eliminate the biggest problem with unplugged laptop use
- battery life limitations. As Voss notes, the storage batteries
currently used in laptop computers and other portable electronics are
basically just highly refined and developed 18th century technology
that has little evident potential for improvement.
Fuel cells, on the other hand, will keep producing electricity as
long as they have fuel, which can be replenished, usually hydrogen or
methanol.
The OSes tested were OS X 10.1 and OS 9.2.1, and Bernie ran three
tests: Idle performance, DVD playback, and Sleep performance. In
order, battery performance under OS X was 12.25% worse, 2.7% better,
and a dead heat compared with OS 9.
The newest members of the IBM Travelstar family of hard disk
drives are the first in the industry to implement
Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motor technology for industry-leading
idle and operating acoustic performance. In addition, these new
TravelStar models support the fast Ultra DMA mode-5 interface for
transfer rates of up to 100 MB/sec.
The IBM Travelstar hard drives provide areal densities up to 25.7
Gbits/sq. in., yielding up to 15 GB of capacity per disk, combined
with an industry- leading operational shock rating of 180 G/2 ms,
which makes these drives well suited for today's most demanding
users.
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very
small mouse (that is not a redundancy in this instance) is designed
with road warriors in mind.
implement
Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motor technology for industry-leading
idle and operating acoustic performance. In addition, these new
TravelStar models support the fast Ultra DMA mode-5 interface for
transfer rates of up to 100 MB/sec.
