50 USB 3.0 Products Have Passed Inspection by USB-IF, Many More to Follow
There's a list of 50 products that the governing body around the USB standard has listed as approved by them to carry the USB-IF logo. This number seems awfully small, especially for those of us still forced to use USB 2.0 to move VMDK's and encrypted DB archives around. Spending hours a week waiting on data to move adds up and costs valuable work dollars. While this doesn't seem like many, the number is growing fast. The other thing to consider is that the silicon is what is getting approved and that it will be re-used and re-sold under many other names. NEC's chipset is now in dozens of the first USB 3.0 upgrade cards and many more core technologies being examined now will be similarly cloned under a single USB-IF product banner.
Unfortunately, there aren't a ton of the MUST HAVE devices on the market yet. Currently, our top pick for most useful device would be the Sharkoon drive station; anyone doing mass amounts of drive cloning and imaging should have one of these already. Once R&D groups have their imagination stimulated we should have a plethora of interesting products in the chute like Tritton's. Here's to 50 more USB 3.0, we're right here behind ya!
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Astro Drive - Smallest USB 3.0 Storage to Date (Bestest Colors Ever)
The Astro Drive A101 is here to win hearts and inspire by being the smallest USB 3.0 device. Well, for today that is, currently there are only 50 some-odd USB 3.0 certified devices out there and this may currently hold the title. We'll likely be announcing its successor in about 2 weeks so try not to have a heart attack. This drive from Walton-Chaintech bears the Apogee name and follows close on the heels of a speedy USB 2.0 drive from the same company. Due to the extravagant and ethereal nature of the press release, we're forced to assume that this has similar internals. With 180MB/s read speed and 130MB/s write speed, this will be a very worthy flash drive (There's even a faster, more capable drive, but that's for geeks born with silver spoon in their mouth.) If they have a flip out connector and keep the price under $300 for the large 128GB variant, we'll have our pre-order in before the end of the day (32GB and 64GB models are available as well). Unfortunately, the price and where to pre-order are still absent from their site along with most of the other details that would be important to most of the people that this drive would thrill.
The press release is worthy of a read for fun though. It seems that choosing to use 2 colors in the casing turns this into a super-charged lifestyle drive full of vigor and fashion. They really do go on about the colors, both of them, being really important while details about speed, memory type and pretty much anything else are not to be found. From the text we'd expect to see Ashton Kutcher toting one of these but from the picture they'll be lucky to get an endorsement from Infra-man. Once we have more details, or at least a second detail we promise to get really excited.
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Logitech Z205 Clip-on Speakers, Easy Upgrade for Better Netbook Sound
If you bought your netbook hoping to have a decent MP3 or video player, you probably had a lot of buyer's remorse the first time you tried to crank up some tunes on it. The underpowered netbook is usually equipped with some really underwhelming. Logitech's latest Laptop Speaker Z205 is an easy way to give any laptop a boost. The Z205 sports an internal sound card and stereo speakers for quality sound and projection.
The slim unit is designed to fit directly on the top of you laptop LCD. Sitting a little closer to ear level means less volume and less distortion. There's a carrying case included to making packing this along with you just as easy as it is to plug it in. There have been a few of these to come out int this form factor but none have carried Logitech's name and reputation. The price is a reasonable $39.99, but it would be hard to pass up the option of an NXT version or slightly bigger drivers. If the size is right for you, they should reach shelves any day now.
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