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

To: BeachBum who wrote (5411)	1/2/1999 7:43:00 PM
From: Philip J. Davis	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 10072

Clik! Review: I purchased the Clik! drive for digital cameras on 1/1/99 at CompUSA in Pensacola, FL. Purchase price was $249. I asked for more Clik! media, but none was available. They asked me to check back in a week or so. I've got a standing order with PC Connection for a 10-pack of Clik! disks. I took pictures of the packaging (front and back), including the contents of the box upon opening. Also included are pictures of the drive sitting in its desktop docking station and the Clik! drive with flash card reader attached. albums.photopoint.com The contents of the box were as follows: 1. Clik! drive 2. Clik! disk w/plastic carrying case 3. Flash card reader 4. Desktop docking station 5. NiMH battery 6. Parallel port interface 7. A/C adapter 8. Clik! leather carrying case Also included in the packaging materials were a Quick Start Guide, a troubleshooting guide, a user's manual, and a Clik! tools CD. Installation was pretty straight forward using the Quick Start Guide. There were no problems, lockups, glitches or IRQ conflicts. Software installation was equally uneventful. After the software installation, I rebooted my computer. I then double-clicked on the "My Computer" icon on my desktop to make sure the installation was successful. Lo and behold, the Clik! drive was represented by a "Removable Disk" icon. Double-clicking on this icon accessed the Clik! drive like any other removable disk - like a Zip drive. It concerned me initially that there were so many pieces to keep track of. In reality, once the desktop docking station was installed, the only other "pieces" were the battery, flash card reader and Clik! drive. As shown in the pictures, all three of these pieces form a single unit the size of a large cell phone. The software includes a program called Iomega Photo Printer. Basically, as it's name implies, the program is for printing photos, though it has a slide-show capability for displaying pictures on the monitor. The software was easy to use. Upon execution, the program automatically senses any jpgs on the hard drive and the Clik! drive and displays thumbnail pics. From there you can select a photo and then print it out. You can also elect to print out the thumbnail pictures. I took the Clik! drive (with flash card reader attached and both inside the leather carrying case) and my Olympus D-400Z digital camera on a picture taking field trip. Since my D-400Z came with an 8MB flash card, I was able to take 5 sets of pictures and store them on one Clik! disk. As advertised, the Clik! drive makes taking large amounts of pictures very easy without having to drag along a laptop computer in order to unload pictures from the camera once the camera is full of pictures. Once I came home, I merely removed the flash card reader from the Clik! drive and inserted the drive into the desktop docking station. From there I went to the "My Computer" icon to access the Clik! drive and copied the pictures to my hard drive - again, just like any other removable disk. This was all much faster than the other methods I was using for importing pictures into my computer - by serial cable or using the FlashPath floppy adapter that came with the D-400Z. The pictures were copied from the Clik! drive to my computer at about the same rate as a PP Zip drive ~ 700k/second. Please send me any questions concerning the drive and I will make my best attempt to answer them. regards, Philip