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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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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%… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More