MCE ANNOUNCES VERSATILE PORTABLE STORAGE DEVICE.Mac Components Engineered's PowerBook products division (MCE See Media Center Edition. PowerBook Products, an Apple Developer) Monday announced they will begin shipping immediately their DataShuttle Xtreme, the world's most versatile portable storage device, in 10GB, 20GB and 30GB capacities. The DataShuttle Xtreme is a portable, high-performance external hard drive with FireWire, USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. and PC Card (PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, San Jose, CA, www.pcmcia.org) An international standards body and trade association that was founded in 1989 to establish a standard for connecting peripherals to portable computers. PCMCIA created the PC Card. See PC Card. ) interface capabilities. This is accomplished by attachment cables which convert the DataShuttle Xtreme's connector to either FireWire, USB, or PC Card. The attachment cables can be interchanged at any time, thereby allowing the DataShuttle Xtreme to connect to virtually every shipping and recently shipped, iMac, iBook, Cube, PowerMac and PowerBook. The DataShuttle Xtreme ships standard with the FireWire attachment cable. The USB and PC Card attachment cables are sold separately. The PC Card attachment cable is available immediately while the USB attachment cable will ship in early December. A do-it-yourself kit enabling the end-user to install their own 2.5-inch hard drive into the DataShuttle Xtreme enclosure enclosure (inclosure) n. land bounded by a fence, wall, hedge, ditch or other physical evidence of boundary. Unfortunately, too often these creations are not included among the actual legally-described boundaries and cause legal problems. ENCLOSURE. will also ship immediately. The MCE DataShuttle Xtreme, when used with the FireWire attachment cable, becomes a high-performance FireWire hard drive capable of handling even the most data-intensive applications ... including video capture. The FireWire attachment cable even includes an extra FireWire port in order to daisy-chain more FireWire devices. Also, the DataShuttle Xtreme is entirely portable in that it can draw its power from machines with built-in FireWire ports. It is also capable of booting Macs and PowerBooks with built-in EireWire ports. FireWire driver software which allows formatting, partitioning To divide a resource or application into smaller pieces. See partition, application partitioning and PDQ. and password protection is included. The USB attachment cable, and included driver software, allows the DataShuttle Xtreme to be used on any desktop or portable Mac which has a USB port A USB socket on a computer or peripheral device into which a USB cable is plugged. See USB. . The PC Card attachment cable allows the DataShuttle Xtreme to be used with any PowerBook with a PC Card slot A socket for inserting a printed circuit board or a PC Card (CardBus card). See PC Card. and, as with the FireWire attachment cable, requires no external power supply resulting in complete portability. The DataShuttle Xtreme do-it-yourself kits start at $99 for the PC Card version, $139 for the FireWire version, or $179 for a DataShuttle Xtreme do-it-yourself kit with both FireWire and PC Card attachment cables. The FireWire attachment cable ($99) and the PC Card attachment cable ($49) can be purchased separately as needed as needed prn. See prn order. . |
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