Archives for January 2008

If you watched the keynote by Steve Jobs a couple of days ago, you will have seen him bring out on state a manila envelope which he pulled out the new MacBook Air. It was used to emphasise how thin the new MacBook air is. A couple of quick thinkers, Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans jumped on this idea and have created a hand made upholstery-grade vinyl case lined with fleece to protect your new super slim MacBook Air.

You can place orders now for $29.95 and they plan to ship them along side your new Mac in a few weeks when they are officially launched.

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Custom USB are a company which provide a number of flash drives which can be fully customised with your company logo or brand. Capacities of the flash drives tend to be between 64Gb and 2Gb with various, or custom colours possible. Not only are the flash drives custom, but the packaging can also be customised too providing a great way to get your name out to your clients in business.

Prices vary due to the vast array of drives and custom work, so if you are in need of this type of service Custom USB are well worth checking out.

The Alienware Area 51 laptop is a powerful beast. It can have up to 4GB of 667MHz DDR2 memory, dual hard drives, 1200p (ultra-high definition) video on it’s 15.4 inch screen, HD audio and an Intel Core 2 Extreme processor. Also wireless connectivity is in there as well as Bluetooth allowing you a plethora of networking options. The keyboard is illuminated and the colour of the lights can be controlled with an onscreen control panel. As well as having the keyboard lit, the touch pad is also highlighted too which makes a nice touch. The second hard drive is removable and sits in a bay to the left of the laptop and when removed, can be replaced with an optical drive or secondary battery to increase the battery life.

Prices for the m15x range from $1499 to $2599 which you are getting a seriously nice laptop there.

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Yesterday, Apple revealed it’s latest goodies to be made available. This time the winner of the show was the MacBook Air which is a seriously slim MacBook with the option of a flash based hard drive. The MacBook Air has some impressive features with the size of the thing being most noticeable. It measures just 0.76″ thick which is slim compared to a Sony Vaio and it weighs just 3 pounds. The screen is 13.3″ and wide-screen backlit with LED’s. Resolutions range from 720 x 480 up to 1280 x 800. An integrated 37-watt-hour lithium-polymer battery powers the MacBook Air which can keep it running for 5 hours with wireless enabled. That alone is a fairly impressive number. The processors options are either 1.6Ghz or 1.8Ghz and the unit comes standard with an 80GB HDD with the option for a 64GB SSD drive. SSD is the way to go, but does add a hefty number on to the total ($1299 extra). If you can afford to splash our for the extra .2 GHZ and SSD then do it.

For connectivity you are looking at Wireless 802.11n draft specification with backwards compatibility for a/b/g. Bluetooth is 2.1 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate).

Another nice feature about the MacBook Air is the backlit keyboard and a multi touch mouse pad which works in the same way a multi touch screen on the iPhone works. If you want to zoom, you just gesture with moving your fingers apart etc…

Overall it’s a very nice MacBook and well worth pre ordering.

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A plethora of memory cards are found in mobile phones, digital cameras and other similar devices. Transferring data is usually the quickest when connecting the memory card right up to your PC rather then via USB cable. The 62-in-1 card reader does just what it says. It has several slots which between them can take 62 different formats of memory card. It uses a 3.5″ floppy drive bay and connects direct to the motherboard on your PC. As well as reading memory cards the device can hook up to a SATA and e-SATA type drive which can be very handy for some.

It costs just $39.99 and is available from USBFever.

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