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A-DATA Turbo Series CF 350X Is the World's Fastest Compact Flash Card
A-DATA's Turbo Series CF card is 350X, which gets you a 52MB/sec read and 47MB/sec write, and comes in 8 and 16GB sizes. It's the fastest Compact Flash card in the world, which is made out of Single-Level-Cell (SLC) flash memory, and has dual-channel support.[A-Data]
storage
Century DIY SSD Now Goes Up to 2TB (in Theory)
While both Intel and Samsung are promising big drops in SSD prices by the year's end for now they still cost plenty. Unless you want to take the DIY route, and use this nifty gizmo from Century which uses compact flash cards for storage. The new version now accepts CF 3x cards and can create drives between 2GB and a crazy (and impossible, for now) 2TB in size. So you could buy a pair of 32GB CF cards for around $270, add in $192.57 for the DIY drive and you'd have a 64GB SATA SSD for about $460— less than half the cost of the 64GB MacBook Air's drive. Not bad, eh? Available from May 1st. [GeekStuff4U via Akihabaranews]
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Dealzmodo: Free 4 GB Kingston Elite Pro Compact Flash Card
Adorama's got a 4GB Kingston Elite Pro CF card for $40, but with the $40 rebate, the total price is $0. Rebate deals sorta suck, but only if you're forgetful, and we're talking about free here. There's only a day left, so hurry! [Adorama via Photography Bay]
1:22 PM on Thu Feb 7 2008
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laptops
Panasonic CF-W7 Gets Subaru Impreza Styling
Super car inspired laptops are ten a penny, and despite their styling they rarely have anything special to offer. Panasonic's CF-W7 continues with the pointless aesthetic makeovers, but this time Subaru are getting in on the action. The CF-W7 will be limited to a production of 500 pieces, so if you are hot for Subaru Impreza WRX STI styles, grab these while they are hot. Under the hood, Panasonic has packed in a flurry of standard features, including: More »
Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and others pitch Universal Flash Storage, "a unified removable memory card that can be shared among various mobile, portable and other CE devices without the need for any adaptors." Yeah, just like SD, CF, Memory Stick and xD before it. [CNNMoney.com]
toughening up
Panasonic's Toughbook CF-52 Gets Widescreen and 3G Upgrade
Panasonic's Toughbook line got a widescreen upgrade this morning. The new semi-rugged CF-52 has a 15.4-inch WUXGA screen along with a shock-mounted hard drive, spill resistant keyboard, and a magnesium alloy shell. The notebook also comes with the option of embedded EV-DO or UMTS/HSDPA (nice way to stay connected if you're always on the go). The standard version will start at $1,649 while the optimized version will go for $2,499. Full specs after the jump. More »
peripherals
SanDisk CF 5000 Industrial Grade Memory
Has SanDisk gone bonkers, run out of ideas, or is there actually a need for a product like this? Today, SanDisk has announced its CompactFlash 5000 series. These cards are industrial grade, and it is even printed on the actual card, so it has to be true. The cards will be available in sizes from 512MB up to 8GB and have write speeds of 30MB per second, which is pretty fast. The cards are also constructed out of higher-grade materials to prevent the wear and tear that CF cards usually endure. This isn't an excuse to let your CF 5000 card double as a dog toy, but rest assured that it will be able to withstand the rigors of your everyday CF usage. These cards will be able this summer. More »
portable media
DIY: Convert the iPod Mini to a Flash-Based Player
Why would someone want to replace the iPod mini hard drive with a compact flash card? Well, why not? Compact flash cards are becoming readily available in larger and larger capacities (16GB iPod mini anyone?) and it requires much less battery power than a hard drive. If you have a large CF card laying around and want to revive that iPod mini, hit the link below and get modding. More »
wireless
Panasonic ToughBook Joins the WWAN Party
Just when we thought we had seen them all, Panasonic has given its ToughBook line of laptops mobile broadband capabilities, which means you can use your ToughBook to connect to the interwebs from anywhere. The CF-19 ($4,199) and the CF-30 ($4,699) will both support UMTS/HSDPA networks as well as Sprint and Verizon's high-speed EV-DO network. The laptops are still highly underpowered and overweight for their price tag (the CF-30 comes in at 8 lbs), but to date they're the only rugged notebooks with built-in WWAN. More »
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Panasonic Toughbooks: Hardened Cases, Long Battery Life
Here's some clean design from Panasonic, adding a trio of Toughbooks to its laptop portfolio, the CF-W5, the CF-T5, and CF-Y5. All three have magnesium alloy cases and shockproof drives that can take the kind of beating road warriors routinely dish out, but they're not exactly tough enough for military use like some hardened notebooks we've seen. More »
peripherals
Kingston 8GB CompactFlash Elite Pro
Kingston Technology released an 8GB CompactFlash Elite Pro card, a Type 1 solid-state storage device which the company says transfers data at a fairly rapid clip for a CF Card. The company quotes a read speed of 8MB per second and write speed of 6.75MB per second, which is not the fastest 8GB CF card we've seen, at least as far as manufacturers' specs go. That nod would go to the SanDisk Ultra II 8GB CF card which boasts a read speed of 10MBps and a write speed of 9MBps. More »
digital cameras
SanDisk Launches Planned Camcorder Systems
SanDisk is planning a series of camcorders, called "Grass Valley Infinity," that will use CF cards instead of standard tapes. Working with Thomson, SanDisk has created a usage model in which two CF cards work in tandem to record scenes, no tape required. No word on pricing or availability, but with a name like "Grass Valley," expect it to be China only at first. More »
digital cameras
Pretec Intros 4GB CF Card with 20MBps Read Speed
Pretec announced the 133x, a 4GB Compact Flash (CF) card the company claims can read data at 20MBps and write at 14MBps. Pretec boasts that it's the fastest CF card in the world, and 50% faster than its predecessor, the 80x. The 133x will begin shipping in late March, but no price was announced. More »
laptops
Panasonic's Sumo Class R4
The race to create the lightest, fastest notebook is getting old. So Panasonic, and other Japanese laptop makers, are changing the stakes: now it's all about durability. Hence Panasonic's latest Let's Note CF-R4j notebook, which claims to have a 218 lb. weight resistance (up from 110 lb. in the previous version). The notebook is unchanged in just about every other way (including the ability to withstand a 12-inch drop). But the durability champ is still NEC, which has a notebook with 330 lb. of weight resistance. More »
pcs
Mini PCs Getting Even Mini-er
The CF700 (from the profoundly-named small computer makers "Minipc" in Japan) proudly states that it is smaller than a Mac Mini, and can also double up as some kind of totally awesome tennis ball heating device. Whilst I'm not a fan of the comparing game, I still fail to see how any of these so-called Mac Mini competitors are really a viable alternative, seeing as how many of them — including the CF700 — do not have optical drives. That's real progress — sacrificing functionality to make something smaller. In 5 years the world's smallest computer will be a tiny thing that sits on one finger and there will be no graphics card, no sound card, no on/off switch, no HDD, but it will have some kind of really cool blue LED light and will let you do simple arithmetic if you use the optional external keyboard. Overall, though, my general indifference is caused by the fact that small computers like this are becoming something of a cliche. Come on manufacturers — mix it up a little. Let's see something different. I'm holding out for the world's first EDIBLE pc. More »
