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Non-Tech : Iomega Thread without Iomega -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jwk who wrote (4124)	11/17/1998 2:09:00 AM
From: Philip J. Davis	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 10072

Iomega's booth was very large and well positioned at Comdex to obtain a great deal of foot-traffic - being positioned right next to the always-crowded food court. Four large bins of large Iomega buttons drew hoards of people wanting freebies. The clickers that were so ever-present this year ran out early in the day, but everywhere you went, you could hear the clik!, clik!, clik!....I hope to get one tomorrow! I learned a significant fact concerning Imation's new USB SuperDisk drive for the PC platform: Imation has separate USB drives for Mac and PC!!!! USB SuperDisk is not cross-platform!!! For those that do not know, Iomega's USB Zip drive IS cross-platform (works on both Macs and PC's). I learned all this from observing that Imation had separate drives on display. Knowing that such a lack of cross-platform compatibility might be a sore point with Imation, I decided to see if I could get the Imation rep to admit it forthrightly and to get his reaction. Sadly, the Imation rep danced mightily around the question as to why Imation had separate USB SuperDisk drives for the PC and the Mac. When I finally asked him directly, he said that the PC USB SuperDisk drive was basically a PP model with a USB converter attached - along with its attendant performance problems. He said the Mac version was a SCSI SuperDisk drive with a USB adapter - and that YES, the drives were NOT cross-platform. I failed to make it to Sony's booth - though I will certainly scope it out and take plenty of photos and to actually test the HiFD itself. On prominent display at Iomega's booth was the Clik! drive in all its manifestations: as on-the-go storage for digital cameras, hand-held Windows CE PC's, and for desktop and notebook PC's. NEC had on display its USB Clik! drive. It worked like a charm. Met one of NEC's vice presidents - he was there proudly demonstrating the USB Clik! drive to all who would watch. I watched amazedly as he repeatedly disconnected and reconnected the USB Clik! drive - to prove that it was truly hot-swapable. I was afraid that at any moment the computer would lock up and embarrass him - which never happened! The USB Clik! drive performed beautifully. Also on display were the new Zip250, which sports the same distinctive blue Zip color, but the drive's shape is more sleek and rounded. I took many pictures today and will take many more tomorrow. Unfortunately, all the pictures are SHQ quality (super-high) and are rather large (about 400k each). When I get home, I'll reduce the resolution and crop to a more manageable size to incorporate into a simple web page. Here are the links: NEC's USB Clik! drive geocities.com Both Zip250 and USB Zip geocities.com Clik! drive with flash card reader attached geocities.com Clik! MP3 Player geocities.com Display of OEM Clik! drive geocities.com regards to all, Philip (aka Lipo)