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Non-Tech : The New Iomega '2000' Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: eric larson who wrote (1589)	7/10/1999 3:27:00 PM
From: sheila rothstein	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5023

ORB IS A FLOP! ORB IS A FLOP! ORB IS A FLOP! one more time ORB IS A FLOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To: eric larson who wrote (1589)	7/13/1999 1:41:00 AM
From: eric larson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5023

"Clik! Power Consumption" (comments from a post on TMF) boards.fool.com Earlier, Vin said: One tossaway comment of Bruce Seltzer (Cohodes's guest on "Facts from the Other Side of the Tracks" last week) sticks with me: that Iomega "is working exasperatingly" on Clik power consumption. Is there an element of truth here embedded in all his ranting against Iomega and proselytizing for Sandisk? Vin, Cohodes and Seltzer must be tech ignorami. Clik! power consumption is not even a factor in MP3 portable device players. For example, check out Cypress Semiconductor's super-low-power static RAMs: cypress.com Using these relatively inexpensive ($5 in 10K quantities; much cheaper in mass market quantities) and radically low power devices (3 mA, which BTW is about 10 times less than the drain that compact flash puts on batteries), an MP3 portable device designer could insert a 2MB buffer for under $40. This would provide 2 minutes of digital music that could be periodically filled by the Clik! disk drive within a few seconds, reducing the power used by the Clik! drive dramatically. To play 40 minutes of music stored on a Clik! disk, the drive would have to spin up 20 times, but for only a few seconds at a time. Result: in 40 minutes of music playing, the Clik! drive is only spinning for about one or two minutes total.