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

To: hdl who wrote (4977)	12/25/2002 2:05:07 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5023

>>new zip can compete with cd<< HDL - How are you doing? Haven't posted here in ages. Hope all is well with you. Now, the only thing I see wrong with the above statement is that the new 750MB Zip only competes with CD-R/RW for certain things. I fear that I'll be sounding like Rocky when I say this, but since virtually everyone has at least a CD-ROM drive these days, and since blank CD-Rs have come down to a quarter apiece or less, CDs are now a better medium for sharing files with others. I, for one, am not even tempted a little bit to go out and spend 200 clams for a device that uses media so much more expensive than CDs. I just don't see the value in that proposition. Zip drives used to have a big speed advantage over CD burners, but that's no longer true. My wife continues to use her Jaz drive to back up her work, but also uses CD-Rs for that purpose. Occasionally I pull out my Zip drive to read an old disk for a client, but that's about it. - Allen