Day 1 Continued
The hours are dwindling by, and I am pretty much exhausted at this point. I had less than an hour before the hall closed. Might as well squeeze in a few more exhibitors.
I walked by Can Ram and decided to take a look at what they were showing. They mainly specialize in providing memory for printers, copy machines and such, but for the show, they had USB memory sticks. The interesting feature on their brand was that it had a slide cover, so you wont loose the protective cover on the USB plug. Also, their higher end model has Biometrics built in. Basically you need your finger prints to save or retrieve data. You just install a small program to enable your pc to recognize your prints. (The CD itself is one of those card sized ones, so you can carry it around). Very handy as those diminutive drives can be easily lost, and if you have sensitive data, this would be an ideal solution. Memory sizes range from 64 (none biometric ones, they start at 128), upwards to 1 GB. Prices are about a little over a dollar per MB on the biometric enabled ones.
Notice the square on the tip? It where you put your fingers, Biometric security!
Notice the small card size CD-ROM on the right?
I decided to call it a day, but as I walked out, I noticed Hitachi on hand. As you may or may not know, Hitachi has purchased IBMs Hard disk drive division. They had a few products on hand, one of which was the new 7200 RPM laptop hard drives. They also had their new 4 GB micro drives (which won CeBit Best of Show award), and storage devices that can be used for iPods and the like. They will be releasing a 250GB IDE hard disk drive soon, with an 8 MB cache. I spoke to them about the 75 GXP melee, and they are happy to say that, the later GXPs have not had the same bad luck as the 75 GXP model line. Hitachi wants to be rid of that dark cloud known as the 75 GXP, and is happy to report that its slowly, but surely being swept under the rug. Their newer versions have been stable, and durable, and also very fast.
From Right to Left: Small (7200 Notebook HDD), Smaller (iPod HDD), Smallest (4GB Microdrive).
After my somewhat lengthy conversation with the Hitachi rep, I noticed the exhibitors were closing shop. I guess that was my cue to head on out, and prepare for day 2.
