Freecom's series of Traveller ll optical recorders add to the company's reputation for manufacturing the world's smallest, lightest external drives. They are hardly bigger than the... more
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Freecom's series of Traveller ll optical recorders add to the company's reputation for manufacturing the world's smallest, lightest external drives. They are hardly bigger than the CDs and DVDs themselves and the most pocketable designs to date. Performance of the Freecom Traveller II series has been enhanced too. They are faster and more powerful, and like all Freecom optical drives, they offer unrivalled connectivity with any PC, notebook or Mac. A new designer look to the case is sleek, efficient and complements the most fashion conscious hardware. The Traveller ll's new optional rechargeable power module, with its integrated power management system, guarantees up to six hours of independent operation. When operating with a notebook, the power adaptor cable can be left at home because the Traveller recharges automatically via the interface cable which is a new enhanced feature. As with all Freecom products, the new Traveller II series provides the ultimate connectivity solution. Its Multi Connect System completely separates drive and connectivity functions. Everything to do with connectivity is incorporated into the connecting cables which can be selected separately.
Advantages: Portable, cheap Disadvantages: uses a lot of CPU
...I bought the Freecom portable DVD-ROM drive for my laptop, which only had an internal CD ROM drive. I wanted to play DVD's and was able to do so. The drive is external, and connects to any computer via a parallell port, firexire, USB or PC card, through the PCMCIA slot of a laptop. If the PCMCIA port also has ZV (Zoomed Video) capability, it is a huge bonus. It came with an excellent driver, and software, and was easy enough to install on Windows ME (it is also supported by NT, 95, 98, XP etc). However, I did find that the picture and sound were quite jerky, and sometimes almost unwatchable. I got around this by buying a hardware MPEG II decoder card ("Dvd-to-go", from Margi systems), which sorted out the problem. But I was lucky that I happened to have 2 PCMCIA slots, as it turned out i needed both: one for the Freecom card and one...
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Advantages: Lightweight, Slim, Auto-sync Disadvantages: Shame there isn't a higher capacity
...This Freecom External Hard Drive is a 2.5" Hard Drive that has a USB interface and uses your computer's bus power to power itself. This means that an AC adapter is not required. With so few of these truly bus powered drives around, this is one of the best, followed closely by the Lacie bus powered drive.
Thsi drive is ideal for laptop users who travel with a lot of data, or for those going on holiday with laptops who want to take their mp3's, movies and software with them. It is also great for transferring files to your laptop from another desktop computer. The drive is small enough to fit in a side pocket or to be held in yur hand without difficulty.
The box comes with a good instruction manual, although really one is not needed. The drive is a plug and play device, and windows picks it up as any ordeinary drive. I recommend you...
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Advantages: Extremely durable, vast capacity, simple to use, reasonable price Disadvantages: Not always plug & pay ; needs software installation on a few PC's
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A product I like very much, use regularly and have had no problems with whatsoever is the Freecom ToughDrive Pro Hard drive 120 GB. This was given to me as a present by the man in my life (who in truth could be described as an IT geek) I have had several memory sticks in the past as I frequently carry projects to and from home, work, meetings and conferences and they have become a real part of my life and one that I couldn’t manage without ( sad but true)
I’ve had problems in the past from loosing memory sticks ( not too bad if I can find them again !) because they are small or because the fiddly little clips break away (I used to keep them clipped to my car keys for safety (ha), and I...
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This super little unit is a great first time unit for anybody wanting to try moving up to a mediacentre. The menu's are easy to use and uploading media to the unit is a simple as plugging into your pc's usb port and it simply appears as another hard... more
I have had this phone for a few weeks now. I am overall impressed with it. This phone offers great connectivity it has on-board GPS, IRDA, Bluetooth, 3g and WiFi.
The phone has some excellent applications such as a program which you can scan... more
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