>>Learn something new every day.<<
Yes, I learned something today. Before, I had a notion that Vapor! would flop. Today, I am convinced.
It has too many pieces, the margins are going to be murder, a 40MB disc is NOT impressive, and offers no real advantage over Flash tech. In fact, Vapor! can't operate directly with digital cameras at all. All Vapor! is is a Flash Card reader, and only with its Flash Card reader attached to the end of the Vapor! drive. No working models were there that could operate with Flash cards anyway.
They had a Vapor! drive sitting next to a Kodak camera. It wasn't even attached. It was just sitting there. The Iomega rep there said that it could only read the Flash cards taken out of the camera. And, he said that Vapor! should be able to handle SOME Flash cards, not all. Very limited indeed.
BTW, the specs for the next generation of Flash tech, due later this year, blow away anything Vapor! has to offer. Vapor!'s access times suck, the drive unit itself is flaky and cheap feeling, and it looks bulky and strange connected to a Windows CE device.
Vapor! is a toy. nothing more. This comes from first hand knowledge gained at PC Expo '98 NYC. |
