Apple ZIP drive 250 MB

Advantages: Awesome Graphics, Extremely Fast, QUIET!! 2.7 GHZ......
Disadvantages: ooo..... - Talk about Pricy??

...~~~◊ Type: Gaming, General Purpose, Media, Workstation, Business ~~~◊ Screen Size: 30 inches - although monitor is bought separately ~~~◊ Primary Optical Drive: Dual-Layer DVD+/-RW ~~~◊ Processor Family: Apple G5 ~~~◊ RAM: 1024 MB Like all apple Macs this is just another great invention which photographers and graphic artists will be dreaming of because it manages image files so unbelievably well. If you didn't know already, Apple Macs also tend to be quite good at dealing with audio files and it is so much quicker and easier to do it on Apple than on a Windows PC. Unfortunately, when you buy this tower, you don't get a monitor with it although there is a recommended monitor which is by Apple which is perfectly suited with this. This tower is extremely pricy being approximately £1400:00 which is a bit out... Read review

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Advantages: Wonderful when running well
Disadvantages: doesn't run well for very long.

...I purchased a powermac G4/400MZ/128MB/10GB/250MB ZIP DRIVE/OS9 in June and I have had a great deal of trouble with it. Constant crashes, sometimes even freezes on startup with extensions off! I have virtual PC version 3 (with update) installed and have had major problems with it, difficulties printing from the virtual PC - in short very disappointing and frustrating. I get the feeling I've bought a machine with an operating system that has only half tested and been rushed out. I was advised to download OS 9.04 but it has made little difference. It's all the more frustrating when you glimpse how good the G4 can be when running well. I have had USB problems causing false freezes and some days it is just crash, crash, crash for no reason I have been able to fathom (and I have tried everything that everyone has suggested.) 128MB... Read review

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Advantages: Easy, sleek, cheap and safe - what more could you want
Disadvantages: None

...computer via the USB cable (great – one less power lead to clutter up the work surface!). A Zip Drive icon is loaded onto the Windows desktop. A right click from the mouse brings up a multi-faceted menu with such options as Explore, Copy, Paste and Properties. Some items are not available (Format, Copy Disk, Eject) unless a disk is physically in the drive. The drives are compatible with both PC and Apple Mac. They will run with Windows 95 upwards. The office system is a hybrid of Windows XP Pro and Home; my home computer runs with Windows ME. Transfer speeds are quoted as up to 0.7 MB per second. Back up and restore has proved to be simplicity itself. Straight forward file copies are simple drag and drop operations. More formal back up jobs can be scheduled. The drives are orders of magnitude faster than my previous parallel one. The 250 MB... Read review

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