Apple Floppy disk drive 1.44 MB

Advantages: a joy to use, good software, easy to get to grips with.
Disadvantages: not all software is available on the Mac, C4 online for eg.

...Background of the Apple MacBook. Apple computer was born on the first of April 1976; Steven Wozniak and Steven Jobs established the company. It was not until 1977 that the company really took of with the release of the Apple II at a local computer trade show, it was an impressive machine in many ways, it was the first personal computer to come in a plastic case, and had colour graphics, huge requests and orders were made after this introduction and when apple released the easiest to use floppy disk drive at the time, the Apple Disk II; Apples sales improved further. As with the increase of orders came and increase in the company size and by 1980 the company had several thousand employees and the Apple III was released. It was during the Super bowl in 1984 that Apple released their infamous sixty second commercial introducing... Read review

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Advantages: ALMOST NOTHING
Disadvantages: ALMOST EVERYTHING

...FLOPPY DISK A very good device to save some of your stuff. 1.44mb is not much of a very big space. It is not worth it but the price you pay is comparatively small. There are more devices like USB and Mp3 players which costs just bit more and gives more space. To be precise in 1.44 mb you can just save about ONE or two JPG image. if u need something to save your project in or which you might need for long it is not worth it. it is worth for some one who just wants to save some word documents. The another disadvantage which is kind of a major one is that the laptops don't have a floppy drive built in. You need an external Floppy drive to make this thing work in the laptop. Hope this is useful.... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: Good floppy disk replacement
Disadvantages: Expensive media and lack of universal support.

..., along with CD-R. CD-R has the upperhand because you can shove a CD in to pretty much any PC, wheras Zip is very widespread among designers and publishing houses, so if your in the graphic or web design market, get yourself a Zip 100 drive, or if you get a lot of work sent in on Zip, consider a 250. Although then the drive is a lot more expensive, as is the media. One day they'll have these on every machine as standard, and I will be most happy. But, I *need* to find a cheaper media supplier. Apple have already gone the first step in removing the 1.44Mb floppy drive, now it's just a matter of time before the PC industry copy those revolutionary steps of taking out outdated technology. Apparantely (according to my sources, humm, theRegister.co.uk), Intel are planning to remove the floppy, but what will be it's replacement? Superdrive? Good... Read review

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