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Iomega Delivers Mac mini HD Companion

Iomega yesterday announced a new external hard drive geared towards the Apple Mac mini crowd. The Iomega MiniMax Desktop Hard Drive is available now in 160GB ($199.95) and 250GB ($249.95) storage capacity sizes.

The MiniMax, said Iomega, mirrors the look of the Apple Mac mini, coming in at 6.5 inches square and 2 inches tall. Stackable with the Mac Mini, it comes equipped with a three port USB 2.0 hub and a three port FireWire hub. A “smart power switch” allows the drive to stay in sync with Mac mini’s power status and a active/passive cooling system runs very quietly.

Iomega ScreenPlay Features DVD Buttons

Iomega Corporation today announced a new external hard drive unit which they feel is well suited towards multimedia uses. The 60GB ScreenPlay Multimedia Drive is available now for $219.95.

The ScreenPlay, said Iomega, can hold up to 240,000 photos, 90 hours of DVD-quality video or 1,100 hours of digital music. Chief among the features of this USB 2.0 external hard drive is built-in multimedia playback capability through a TV or A/V system via its audio and video outputs. A set of DVD-style playback buttons and on-screen TV navigation helps users select a video, song list, or slide show to play. A wireless remote is included to help control the ScreenPlay’s functions.

Iomega Makes Available New Mini External HD

Data storage products company Iomega today announced a new USB 2.0 external hard drive product line. Known as the Micro Mini Hard Drive, 4GB ($129.95) and 8GB ($169.95) models are available now.

Iomega’s Micro Mini Hard Drive, which weighs less than 1.75 ounces, is smaller than a credit card. Its 4200-RPM hard drive is protected by drop shock technology and has a fold-away USB connector which eliminates the need for a separate USB cable. Power for the external hard drive is drawn directly from the computer’s USB port.

Shipments Of 1394 Enabled-Devices To Grow

The market for products with IEEE 1394 (1394) continues to be characterized by both tremendous opportunity and enormous ambiguity, according to In-Stat/MDR (http://www.instat.com). The high-techmarket research firm reports that the high-speed serial bus specification (also known as FireWire or i.Link) is thriving in both PC and Consumer Electronics (CE) markets and, as a result, shipmentsof 1394-enabled devices are expected to see a 22.2% Compound Annual Growth Rate between 2003 and 2008.

FutureMark Gets Mad Over Nvidia Drivers

Quote from the article at Adrian’s Rojak Pot:

” Futuremark recently asked us to redo our benchmarks using the only NVIDIA driver they approved for use with 3DMark03. But that approved driver has a “3DMark03-specific optimization”! So, what’s going on??!

We talked to Futuremark to see what’s up with that “approved” driver and its “3DMark03-specific optimization”. Let’s see what they have to say! “

Read the full article

Quote from the article at Overclockerscafe:

PCI Express May Be Rapidly Adopted

Offering significant changes over PCI, PCI Express should be universally adopted among notebook and desktop PCs as well as workstations and servers, reports In-Stat/MDR. The high-tech market research firm expects that the increased performance, improved latency, and Quality-of-Service guarantees for data delivery in real time presented by the new architecture should lead to rapid adoption, with the first PCI Express chipsets hitting the market in volume in Quarter 2 2004.

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