06-25-2003, 04:30 PM
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Toshiba 15GB PC Card Hard Drive
Wow. Imagine 15GB of storage on your Pocket PC. Now stop imagining. 8O
"Toshiba's 1.8-inch HDD 15GB Type II PC Card hard disk drive packs high capacity into a PC Card format, providing additional portable storage and increased mobility for notebook PC users. The 15GB PC Card offers mobile computer users the highest capacity available and the most cost effective solution - especially when compared to other small-footprint HDDs. It's powerful, lightweight design make it an ideal "bridge" device for sharing data between systems such as two notebooks, a notebook and digital camera or other mobile gear. The drive also functions as an external hard disk drive with robust back-up storage capacities for large multimedia files and presentations, holding as much information as 3,472 floppy disks or more than 7 CDs."
MobilePlanet [affiliate] is listing a July 15th ship date. The only problem is that it's a little pricy at $499 -- one could get a 30GB iPod for the same price. On the other hand, I can't play movies or Ogg files on an iPod. 
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06-25-2003, 04:38 PM
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me, me :)
C'mon Janak, you know you want to get me one of those for my birthday 
Suhit
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06-25-2003, 04:45 PM
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What about the battery life?
I'd rather have an iPod though, that and it's a FAST portable hard drive.
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06-25-2003, 04:54 PM
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Originally Posted by sponge
What about the battery life?
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You'd definitely need a unit with a second battery, like an iPAQ with a PC sleeve (or PC Plus sleeve).
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I'd rather have an iPod though, that and it's a FAST portable hard drive.
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I'd imagine this to be decently fast too - the PC card interface is not that slow.
--janak
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06-25-2003, 04:54 PM
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Re: Toshiba 15GB PC Card Hard Drive
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Originally Posted by Janak Parekh
"Toshiba's 1.8-inch HDD 15GB Type II PC Card hard disk drive packs
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Again, too bad I won't be able to get one.....never buying Toshiba again. Even if they do offer an upgrade.
:grumble: :grumble: :grumble:
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06-25-2003, 05:01 PM
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Re: Toshiba 15GB PC Card Hard Drive
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Again, too bad I won't be able to get one.....never buying Toshiba again. Even if they do offer an upgrade.
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Hmm... you do realize that they're completely different departments of Toshiba, right? For example, I'm pretty sure the iPods use Toshiba 1.8" hard drives. Does this mean you should stop buying iPods too? 
--janak
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06-25-2003, 05:10 PM
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Don't care. As soon as I found out about the upgrade I cancelled my order for a 42" Toshiba Big Screen I had ordered from best buy saturday. I'm not buying anything Toshiba again.
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06-25-2003, 05:13 PM
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I think that Janak is pointing out that even if you buy non-Toshiba devices, you may end up with Toshiba components *inside* them that you didn't know about. Like in the case of buying an iPod from Apple, but it has a Toshiba hard drive inside.
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06-25-2003, 05:20 PM
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Didn't Toshiba announce 10Gb and 20Gb 1.8" drives last year? whatever happened to those?
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06-25-2003, 05:22 PM
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Oh well, at least we're getting support from apple and not toshiba. Their customer support sucks all around. I was transferred four times to get a replacement "e" key for my Satellite notebook's keyboard, and I still didn't get it!
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