Posts Tagged ‘USB 3.0’
Get Ur Freecom: Freecom Mobile Drive Mg and USBClip
With the launch of the latest Mac Air still fresh in our minds, it’s unsurprising that manufacturers are trying to emulate its svelte proportions and sleek design with peripherals for the Mac. Enter the Freecom Mobile Drive Mg – which its makers claim is the thinnest mobile hard drive available in the world today. Measuring just 10mm in depth and with a casing of ultra-light and strong magnesium, the drive…
Buffalo DriveStation and MiniStation
If you are wanting to store, access, transfer and view documents, files, images and other media collections efficiently, rapidly and ‘stylishly’, you may be interested in Buffalo Technology’s new MiniStation and DriveStation portable devices, both of which enable users to add additional storage to any laptop or computer via a USB port. “Product innovation and engineering excellence”, is, according to Paul Hudson, Sales Director Northern Europe at Buffalo Technology, “at…
Busbi Bolt USB 3.0 Flash Drive – Driving USB storage devices forward
I will always remember back in 2004, a rather eccentric friend of mine, who thinks he is not only a scientist but some kind of whiz kid on a computer, wearing a USB storage device dangling from a piece of ribbon around his neck. “This way I will never lose or have my important files stolen and can view them from any computer”, he would excitedly quip, lovingly stroking his…
Get connected with the Trulink 4 port USB 3.0 SuperSpeed Hub
It’s pretty likely if you’re an avid reader of these pages that you have a few gadgets and devices that need plugging in to your computer. With wireless adapters, MP3 players, USB drives and goodness knows what else, it doesn’t take long to run out of USB ports on your laptop. Enter the latest release from Cables to Go – the Trulink 4 port USB 3.0 SuperSpeed Hub. The black…
Packard Bell’s aesthetically pleasing ixtreme
There aren’t many interesting desktop PCs in the world. Desktops are lumbering beasts in a world where small is cool. So how do you make a desktop system compete for awesome-points against smartphones and laptop? Packard Bell things it has the answer: the ixtreme. Clearly educated by Apple’s marketing department, the ixtreme has copied two very iPad-esque features: putting an “i” at the start of the name, and coating everything…
Freecom’s World first USB 3.0 external HDD
Once upon you would have had to knock up a few extra shelves to house your growing collection of movies, music and important documents; but thankfully with the increasing digitisation of our day to day lives, you can now fit an entire library’s worth of information onto the smallest hard drives and storage devices. The problem is however that with ever-increasing file sizes the standard USB 2.0 connection is seeming…
Nanopoint announce USB 3.0 PCI-E card
Got lots of high definition video stored on your computer? Current USB speeds aren’t ideal for transferring large files, but they’re getting a serious upgrade. USB 3.0 offers theoretical transfer speeds of 4.8Gbps – a ten-fold increase over USB 2.0’s 480Mbps. It’s backwards compatible with current USB products, and won’t cost a huge amount more. Sound good? Well, you know there must be a catch, then. Intel is the bigwig…
