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Apricorn DVR Expander gets welcome makeover

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Apr 9th 2009 No Comments

apricorn dvr expander 1 When it launched back in January, you couldn’t really fault Apricorn’s DVR Expander for its specifications: 1.5TB of storage for plug’n'play expansion of your DVR, with a range of connectivity to suit various different TiVo, Cable and DirectTV receivers, among others. What was less impressive was the casing; it looked cheap and, certainly in the case of the pink unit Apricorn bizarrely chose for their press shots, not something you’d want sat next to your TV. Now the DVR Expander has had a makeover: the same impressive capabilities, but with a far slicker case.

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Niveus ZONE HTPC: Blu-ray & multi-room from $1.5k

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Apr 1st 2009 No Comments

We’ve drooled over Niveus’ multi-room HD hardware before, but it’s only now that the company has released a relatively mainstream product our meager blogger budgets could even hope to afford. The Niveus ZONE is a Core 2 Duo based small-form-factor media player, capable not only of upscaling DVDs and playing 1080p Blu-ray content, but distributing it to other networked ZONE units around the home.

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Samsung Q320 & R522 Core 2 Duo notebooks

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Mar 25th 2009 No Comments

After the flurry of netbooks earlier this week, Samsung have now announced two new Centrino 2 notebooks. The Samsung Q320, shown here, and Samsung R522, shown after the cut, are aimed at “mobile enthusiasts” and “families” respectively, with the Q320 having a 13.4-inch zero-bezel display and the R522 a more traditional 15.6-inch panel.

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Acer Aspire One eSATA mod: Video

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Mar 11th 2009 No Comments

The original Acer Aspire One has proved a willing and able subject for modders, and the most recent hack makes the 8.9-inch netbook all the more data-friendly with the addition of an eSATA port. Piggy-backing over the Storage Expansion SD slot, modder tnkgrl used the netbook’s SATA port to wire things up.

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OWC Mercury Pro Blu-ray burner: FireWire 800/400, USB & eSATA

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Feb 24th 2009 No Comments

OWC have announced their latest Mercury Pro Blu-ray/SuperDrive “Quad Interface” External Drive, offering Blu-ray and DVD burning for any PC or Mac with FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.0 or eSATA connectivity. The new Mercury Pro also doubles the burn speed of the previous-generation version.

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OCZ boasts Thumb Drive speed with eSATA Interface

By Daniel Lim on Friday, Dec 5th 2008 No Comments

USB thumb drive is convenient. The interface is standard with most computers made in the last decade and almost guarantee to work in any platforms. The only downturn is its speed remains an area for improvement. OCZ engineer looks to break the tradition, their new line of ultra fast thumb drive has an eSATA interface instead of a conventional USB ones. The result is sensational; the new integration boasts an astonishing transfer speeds of 90MB/s in reading and 30MB/s in writing.

The OCZ Throttle eSATA drive family ranges from 8GB, 16GB to 32GB capacities. Like the USB with plug-and-play capability, the Throttle allows instantaneously data access from any computer without the need to install any additional hardware or drivers. Product availability and pricing have not yet announced.

Kangaru e-Flash dual eSATA & USB 2.0 32GB flash drive

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Nov 19th 2008 No Comments

kangaru e flash usb esata flash drive Kangaru Solutions have announced what they’re claiming is the first ever eSATA flash drive. The double-ended e-Flash drive has a USB 2.0 connector on one side and an eSATA connector on the other, offering users either the paltry 480MB/s of dull old USB or the blistering 3Gb/s of everyone’s favorite external SATA interface. Of course, those are just theoretical speeds: when you dig into the spec sheet you see the e-Flash is slightly less impressive than the headlines might suggest.

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Gateway FX6800-05 Intel Core i7-940 Gaming PC

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 17th 2008 No Comments

If our review of Gateway’s FX6800-01e Intel Core i7-powered desktop PC whetted your appetite, but you want more Nehalem goodness, you’ll be pleased to hear that the company has unveiled a second FX6800-series PC. The FX6800-05 swaps the entry-level model’s Core i7-920 processor for an i7-940 CPU, running at 2.93GHz. That’s not the only change, either: out goes the graphics and three single gigabyte RAM chips, to be replaced by ATI Radeon HD4870 X2 video cards and 6GB of DDR3 1066MHz memory.

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SimpleTech Pro and Duo Pro: eSATA, FireWire & USB, with 3TB RAID in Q4

By Chris Davies on Friday, Sep 26th 2008 No Comments

SimpleTech have unveiled a pair of external hard-drives offering multiple connectivity options and a reinforced casing for durability. The Pro and Duo Pro drives each have eSATA, FireWire 400/800 and USB 2.0 ports, for data transfers up to 3 gigabytes per second, and in the case of the Duo Pro will offer a choice of RAID 0 or 1 configuration.

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HP Pavilion HDX16 & HDX18 High-Definition Notebooks

By Chris Davies on Monday, Sep 15th 2008 No Comments

HP have announced two new multimedia Pavilion notebooks, the HDX16 and HDX18. Both have 2.26GHz Core 2 Duo P8400 processors, NVIDIA GeForce 512MB graphics and optional Blu-ray, together with HP’s unique “imprint” casing finish. Inprint uses a combination of different colors, vacuum metalized and printed, which are then injected with resin to make durable, wear-resistant panels. The HDX16 has a 16-inch display and the HDX18 an 18.4-inch display; both are 16:9 aspect, the smaller a choice of 720- or 1,080 resolution while the larger is full 1080p HD. Each has flush-fitting glass and 300nits dual-lamp illumination.

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