Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 09:36:05 -0400
From: "Eiren K. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Iomega CLIK! PC Card Drive on buy.com
Yeah, I already own one. It's a very good solution if you have many friends
or associates with laptops (which, incidentally, I don't right now). It's
also a good as-needed field backup solution, especially for those with
subnotebooks (such as my L50 or my Picturebook). I wish they'd taken off
better in the market--I like the form factor a lot better than Zip media.
Someone else posted to the list saying they're coming out with a 100MB
version this year. That'd be nice (but I'm not buying one, now that I'm the
proud owner of one--and more to come--of the 40MB version.
Plus, they make great gifts at <$20 apiece.
-e.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Chien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Libretto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: Iomega CLIK! PC Card Drive on buy.com
> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 14:44:01 -0700 (PDT)
> From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Iomega CLIK! PC Card Drive on buy.com
>
> > Thanks. I bought a few. Do you think they're:
> >
> > a) discontinuing them; or
>
> Just not competitve vs. solid-state flash cards which are not as
magnetic
> field & dust sensitive, and the fact that nobody (today's laptop buyers)
use
> them vs. the built-in CD-RW drives. After all, with most new 500+Mhz
notebooks
> with CD-RW drives selling for only ~$1000, and CD-R discs going for <$0.10
per
> disc (if not free with rebates in Sunday paper ads), it makes no sense at
all
> to use a Clik! disc for the majority, esp. when the discs aren't readable
in
> other peoples machines without the adapter (whereas CD-R discs are).
>
> However, for the single user wanting some portable storage to hold data
just
> in case the HD goes, it's not a bad option considering how cheap they are
for
> 40MB, and that media is going for a decently cheap price on www.ebay.com.
>
> --
>
> Otherwise, it's like this. Iomega sent me one for free. I stared at
the
> pretty metal box and the contents in wonder for a few hours, played with
it in
> laptop and PDA (doesn't work in Sharp Zaurus japanese PDA - too little
power to
> spin it up), thought the transfer rates were so anciently slow ala a ZIP
drive
> (we're talking slow like a floppy, not fast like a 16x+CD-RW drive; slower
than
> a smartmedia flash card even!), and have the Zio! USB SmartMedia
pocketable,
> flash card reader where I can plug in my 128MB card into any PC to
transfer
> files, stared at the pretty metal box some more, then sold it on Ebay for
quite
> a bit of money last year to buy something more useful, like a Lexar
compact
> flash card with seperate PCMCIA adapter (the Lexar cards come with free
USB
> adapters, but you'll need a seperate $10 PCMCIA adapter to PCMCIA slots
and
> laptops w/o USB).
>
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