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Gold-plated USB Stick Sparkles
News A USB memory stick coated in gold and boasting five diamonds on its case was launched at the CeBIT trade fair in Hanover this week. White Lake's luxury USB stick in all its splendour White Lake is part of Specs Distribution of the Netherlands...
[March 10, 2006, 14:40]
Mandriva Flash review
Reviews To use Mandriva Flash, you simply insert the 2GB Dane-Elec-designed USB stick in a suitable port and reboot the computer. Second, some older systems' BIOSs do not support booting from a USB stick. If you're not able to update the BIOS, there is a...
[January 5, 2007, 13:53]
Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook E8110 review
Reviews Fortunately, there are three further USB 2.0 connectors at the back, but these too are vertically oriented and very close together, so using them all at once may prove a challenge. The right-hand side also houses the RJ-11 modem connector and...
[March 1, 2006, 10:10]
Mandriva Linux Gets Flashy
Blog I've been using Mandriva's new Linux-distribution-on-a-USB-stick, Mandriva Flash, and most impressive it is too. I'll post a full review soon, but the main advantages over a similar Live CD distro are that there's a spare 1GB of capacity on the USB...
[January 4, 2007, 11:13]
Data Doctor Recovery Pen Drive
Downloads All the data including images, pictures, audio, video, pics, songs, music, clips, text, documents lost due to accidental loss, virus damage, corrupted drives, Quick Format, software corruption, and system crash can be effectively and efficiently...
[September 4, 2008, 20:16]
HP Says No To Intel's Turbo Memory
News ReadyBoost can already be utilised by inserting a memory card or USB stick into a Vista-based computer, but Turbo Memory is being touted as a way to take advantage of the feature without having to add external media.
[June 4, 2007, 15:33]
10 Ways To Increase Vista's Performance review
Reviews ReadyBoost lets you use a USB stick such as this 2GB Kingston unit as a fast hard disk cache to speed up your Vista system. It’s best to use a high-performance flash card or USB drive for ReadyBoost. You can use a flash memory card or USB key as a...
[August 8, 2007, 12:51]
Kingston DataTraveler BlackBox review
Reviews You can't prevent a USB stick going missing, but you can make sure that the information contained on the drive remains safe from prying eyes. Although it's a little bulkier than your average USB stick, measuring 78mm by 22mm by 12mm, the...
[August 26, 2008, 9:35]
Dell Latitude D400 review
Reviews This makes connecting an optical drive simple because it eliminates the need for an additional power supply, but it does mean that you'll use up one of your two USB 2.0 ports in the process. To add external drives, the Latitude D400 uses Dell's D...
[July 22, 2003, 8:48]
Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook E8020 review
Reviews However, the three rear-mounted USB slots could be problematic. Further towards the back on this side there are S-Video, IEEE 1394 (FireWire) and USB 2.0 ports, as well as an SD/MMC card slot and the mains power input.
[March 15, 2005, 11:45]
Samsung X20 HVM 740 review
Reviews The audio ports are at the front, along with a Memory Stick/SD card slot, while the right-hand side houses the fixed optical drive (a multi-format DVD rewriter), two of the system's three USB 2.0 ports and a SP/DIF jack.
[June 16, 2005, 16:45]
Sony VAIO PCG-Z1SP review
Reviews What you do get is a pair of USB 2.0 ports and the inevitable i.LINK (FireWire/1394) port on the left-hand side, along with the audio ports (microphone and headphone) and an RJ-11 modem port on the right-hand side, plus an RJ-45 Ethernet connector...
[March 12, 2003, 11:52]
Asus V6J review
Reviews On the right edge is a full complement of four USB 2.0 ports; two of these are very close to one another and, depending on the size of your USB connectors, it may not be possible to use them all at once.
[March 28, 2006, 16:15]
Acer TravelMate 8204WLMi review
Reviews On the left edge there are two USB 2.0 ports, an RJ-11 modem port and a rewritable DVD drive, along with Type II a PC Card slot. The right edge houses an RJ-45 Ethernet connector, an analogue VGA port and two further USB 2.0 ports, plus a smartcard...
[January 17, 2006, 12:20]
Toshiba Satellite Pro U300 review
Reviews The right side also houses a single USB slot and the Ethernet (RJ-45) and Modem (RJ-11) ports, plus an ExpressCard slot squeezed in above the optical drive. The left side, from back to front, carries a VGA connector, two further USB ports sitting...
[February 5, 2008, 7:17]
Acer TravelMate 4501WLMi review
Reviews There are two more USB ports on the right-hand side, along with FireWire and S-Video out, RJ-45 and RJ-11, and two removable-media drives (Type II PC Card and SD/MMC/SmartMedia/Memory Stick). At the front you have the audio ports, an infrared port...
[October 19, 2004, 13:35]
Acer TravelMate 291LCi review
Reviews The TravelMate 290 series offers plenty of ports and slots for the average user: there are three USB 2.0 ports, a single Type II PC Card slot, four-pin FireWire, parallel, Ethernet, modem, VGA/video-out, S-Video-out and infrared ports.
[February 6, 2004, 8:25]
Acer Aspire 1714SMi review
Reviews The right edge of the Acer Aspire 1714SMi contains two FireWire and two USB 2.0 ports, as well as a pair of audio mini-jacks. The rear panel houses a PS/2 connector, a parallel port, a Gigabit Ethernet port, a modem port, an S-Video port for...
[September 15, 2004, 8:20]
Dell Latitude D600 review
Reviews Two USB 2.0, S-Video-out, 56Kbps modem, 10/100/1000 Ethernet, parallel, VGA and serial ports stretch out across the rear of the system. Like the C600, the Latitude D600 series includes both a pointing stick in the middle of the spacious...
[March 13, 2003, 16:22]
IBM ThinkPad T40 review
Reviews You'll find two Type II PC Card slots; headphone and microphone jacks; 56Kbps modem and 10/100 Ethernet; S-Video out; and two USB 2.0 ports on the left edge. IBM's signature red pointing stick sits above the B key, with corresponding mouse buttons...
[June 11, 2003, 8:19]
