For those of you out there who are already proud owners of Power Quotient International's
Cool Drive U350, the new lineup from the same company probably looks eerily familiar. While the
firm claims that "extra efforts went into differentiating the H series from its siblings by using techniques such as sand blasting, hairline treatment, and mirror finishes," we're not quite buying it. Regardless of looks, the new flash drives tout ReadyBoost compatibility (although it's apparently not likely to
yield much benefit), are available in sizes ranging from half a gigabyte to 4GB, and come pre-loaded with a
Webaroo offline browser that "downloads and saves internet packets of websites" for viewing whilst not connected. Unfortunately, there's no signs of a price nor an availability date, but aside from the still-nifty retractable nature that the U310H, U350H and U339H all rock, there's not much here to hold out for.
[Via
PC Launches]
posted May 20th 2007 9:13AM
This thing is perfect for storing the "Sword of a Thousand Truths" on...
Exactly what I was thinking.
Listen mate, can you cut the goddamn crap about readyboost? IT DOES WORK. And it may seem PQI did nothing about the design, but its still a darn nice product.
yawn, two more USB sticks in addition to the thousands of models already out there.
ismael shouting won't convince me, but if you post a link to tests done by a reputable source, i'll take that gladly. kinda like the original tests which showed little or no benefit.
There seem to be confusion on what ReadyBoost is for among Engadget. The technology isn't meant to improve performance of a Vista PC, but to improve frequently used application startup time by caching them onto a flash memory. Windows XP has a similar function called prefetch, but it only caches onto the harddrive.
http://tomshardware.co.uk/2007/01/31/windows-vista-superfetch-and-readyboostanalyzed_uk/
"techniques such as sand blasting, hairline treatment, and mirror finishes," HAHA
that one got me cracking
Actually, the drives are all available on pqistore.com
http://www.pqistore.com/item.php?id=189
The 4 GB drive (with 19 MB/s claimed transfer) can be had for a reasonable $50