We are about to introduce Dymo LabelWriters and are offering
introductory pricing, exclusive to our mail list -
LabelWriter 310 $299
LabelWriter 330 Turbo $399
Both units require a USB port and now have enhanced driver software for
Mac OS X, OS 8/9 and Windows . The LW310 is the entry level machine and
prints 8 labels per minute (and is silver & blue).
The LW330 Turbo is the top-of-the-line model and prints 32 labels per
minute ... up to 56mm wide including address, shipping, floppy disk,
CD/DVD, video, file folder, name badge and more. The LW 330 is red and
silver. Expect to pay around $559 to $599 elsewhere! Yes, our price is
$160 - $200 less.
For more info, go to -
http://www.dymo.com/media
or to see a review -
http://www.it-enquirer.com/io/dymo-labelwriter.html
If you'd like to order just reply by email. Remember this is a special
offer exclusive to our mail list .... ONLY!!
Two other specials (there are some others in the FireWire section
below) this week ..... both on FireWire & FireWire/USB cases -
Special 1 - FireStorm 2.5" FireWire enclosure $79 -
http://www.zytech.com.au/firewire/enclosures/firestorm/index.html
Special 2 - FireWire/USB 2.0 Combo 5.25" enclosure $149
http://www.zytech.com.au/firewire/enclosures/enc5.5.html
All specials are for current stock only, so it's first in, first
served. If they haven't all disappeared already all specials expire
Saturday 14 June.
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One quick item ....
Many mail list readers have asked about connecting the same FireWire
drive to both Windows and Mac computers. The best, most simple way
we've seen for doing this is to grab a copy of MacDrive 5 -
http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/
This runs on your Windows Me, 98, 95, NT 4.0, 2000 and XP machine with
the (Mac formatted) hard drive simply appearing as a Windows formatted
drive. When you've finished on your PC the drive is still plug'n'play
back on your Mac. Download cost is US$49.95.
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We've had several readers ask for an explanation of FireWire 800 and
its uses so here's a brief primer with some links to further, useful
reading.
The latest Macs (and soon PC's) feature one of the fastest peripheral
standards ever developed - FireWire 800 (800Mbps - megabits per second)
or officially IEEE 1394b. The immediate use for this high speed bus is
in transferring large data files and for working with video and audio
production.
It doubles the speed of the original FireWire standard (IEEE 1394 or
now FireWire 400) and the cable length can go out as far as 4.5 metres
with bog standard FW 800 cables .... in further releases of FireWire
this will increase to 100 metres (sustaining 3200Mbps using glass fibre
cables) ..... and here's the tip. While initially this high-speed data
bus is going to be embraced by studio professionals for video and audio
work, the mainstream use of FireWire will likely come in the form of
very wide/high speed networks or non-traditional data connections .....
"IEEE 1394b's [FireWire 800's] road to success will probably not reach
its end soon. Despite the attempts of the USB Special Interest Group to
downplay Firewire's importance as being only a niche technology suited
for home-use and video-editing professionals, IEEE 1394b is far more
than a home network technology. Industries that need flexible and
powerful connection technology are very interested in IEEE 1394b.
Airplanes will be equipped with it, the automotive industry has already
shown an interest, and more and more computers will be equipped with a
1394b port." (http://it-enquirer.com/storage/ieee1394b.html)
Unlike the Intel attempts at high-speed data buses, the FireWire
standard allows for full compatibility for all FireWire versions and
products on the FireWire bus. Put simply, If you have a Mac or PC with
FireWire 800 you can connect this directly to your computer and then
daisy-chain several (that's actually a total of 63) existing FireWire
(400) devices to this FireWire 800 hard drive and all peripherals will
operate at their maximum throughput. As many people have discovered
connecting a USB 1.0/1.1 peripheral onto a bus running USB 2.0 slows
every device connected to USB 1.1 speeds.
Also FireWire allows individual devices to "talk" directly to each
other whereas with USB all communication is arbitrated by the CPU,
robbing both processing power and bandwidth.
For all Intel's attempts to present USB 2.0 as an answer to FireWire,
basically USB 2.0 is never going to play on the same court as FireWire.
Already you can simultaneously connect one FireWire video camera to two
FireWire enabled computers, so expect to see FireWire becoming a
networking standard more than our traditional idea of a way to connect
peripherals. In the future, we'll think of peripherals (such as
external hard drives) as just being network devices .... just like
other computers, video cameras, TV's, phones, fridges, internet
"devices", the car parked in the garage .... at the end of our
high-speed FireWire home network!
.... and if you are interested in big, fast FireWire drives we have our
new 250GB FireCube 800 drive available now for $999 -
http://www.zytech.com.au/firewire/drives/firecube/firecube.html
Our FireCube 800's feature only the very fastest 7200 RPM 8MB cache
hard drives and not only offer FireWire 800 ports but also one FireWire
400 port as well as a USB 2.0 port.
If it's just a big FireWire (400) drive you are after we have a 200GB
8MB cache HP FireCube on special this week for $699 -
http://www.zytech.com.au/firewire/drives/firecube/firecube.html
If you don't have a brand new machine and want to play with this new
technology there's a PC & Mac compatible FireWire 800 PCI card
available . The PCI card is fully compliant with the FireWire 800
standard, featuring three FireWire 800 ports and backwards
compatibility with FireWire 400 -
http://www.zytech.com.au/firewire/pci/3port/index.html
If you'd like to know more here are a couple of varied links -
<http://www.e-insite.net/electronicnews/index.asp?layout=article&article
Id=CA91031>
<http://itpapers.cnet.com/whitepapers/papergateway.asp?WID=504959566358&;
referrer=cnet>
<http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/macos/story/0,10801,7742
9,00.html>
http://www.apple.com/firewire/
http://developer.apple.com/firewire/IP_over_FireWire.html
Keith Palmer
Zytech Marketing Pty Ltd
7 The Strand Bunbury 6230
Phone: 08-9791 5556 Fax: 08-9791 5900
http://www.zytech.com.au
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