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2005-08-23 Thread Greg Satti
Hi all! Well over half of the year already gone and there's been another exciting release from Apple with the Mighty Mouse, but more on that later. The 'Cell' recently made a public debut to a standing-room only audience at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). The Cell has

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2005-08-23 Thread Greg Satti
Hi all! Well over half of the year already gone and there's been another exciting release from Apple with the Mighty Mouse, but more on that later. The 'Cell' recently made a public debut to a standing-room only audience at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). The Cell has

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2005-07-26 Thread Greg Satti
Hi all! Our monthly newsletter winner for June hasn't come forward as yet, so we'll be redrawing that again next week. Make sure you tell your colleagues and friends so they can joing up for both the June redraw and the July draw coming up soon. Apple have released some updates recently to the

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2005-07-26 Thread Greg Satti
Hi all! Our monthly newsletter winner for June hasn't come forward as yet, so we'll be redrawing that again next week. Make sure you tell your colleagues and friends so they can joing up for both the June redraw and the July draw coming up soon. Apple have released some updates recently to the

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2005-06-26 Thread Greg Satti
Hi all! Congratulations to Mr Tran from Melbourne for being our lucky newsletter subscriber for May-05. We have a huge end of the year with some great specials from Zytech. First cab off the rank though, you will no doubt have heard about the 'engagement' of Intel and Apple. Apple plan to

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2005-06-09 Thread Greg Satti
Hi all! Congratualations to Dave from Minnamurra who is our lucky winner for Apr-05 (Yes we are a bit late!) just for being a subscriber. Our May winner will be revealed in our next newsletter. In the every changing face of storage, Samsung Electronics recently announced a breakthrough in flash

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2005-05-11 Thread Greg Satti
Hi all! Samsung has introduced a Serial ATA II hard disk drive boasting twice the speed of SATA I hard drives. The drives, available in 80, 120 160GB versions run at 3GB per second (300MB data rate on the bus), spin at 7200rpm and have an 8.9 millisecond average seek time and an 8MB cache

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2005-04-12 Thread Greg Satti
Hi all! We start off this latest newsletter with some reports of superdrives not burning at their advertised speeds. The particular drives affected appear to be the one manufactured by Matshita and feature in the in iMac G5 and 2005 PowerBook G4's. A number of applications are affected including

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2005-02-17 Thread Greg Satti
Hi all! Heard the hype about Skype? The telco companies will be in for a huge battle over the next few years with VoIP technology set to boom. Skype's version of Voice over Internet Protocol software is now about to be become standard on some mobile handsets with the i-mate brand becoming one

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2005-02-02 Thread Zytech - your online data and technology store
Hi all! If you missed our first newsletter of the new year - happy new year to you all! This year promises to be very exciting with better products, and better value for money. If Apple's recent 'flurry' of new products to the market is anything to go by, will all have lots of products to

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2004-12-07 Thread Zytech - your online data and technology store
Hi all! With less than 3 weeks to go were going to help you out with your Xmas shopping with some great bargains to wrap up a great year. But first with the year almost over, the hot products for the following year will no doubt be LCD screens, and technologies centred around multimedia and the

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2004-11-23 Thread Zytech - your online data and technology store
Hi all! With less than 5 weeks to Xmas we've put together some great savings from your online data and technology store - Zytech. But first. For those of you who haven't yet updated to Mac OS X 10.3.6, there have been a few reports of various problems encountered when running the standard

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2004-11-09 Thread Zytech - your online data and technology store
Hi all! How many sleeps to go? 46! I don't know about every one else, but this year (so far anyway) has been a complete blurr. Well, the news for Macs just gets better, but of course most of us know already how good they are and this article goes on to confirm it. Click on the link below to

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2004-10-26 Thread Zytech - your online data and technology store
Hi all! Digital Flash Media or memory cards are eveywhere, most common in digital cameras, PDA's, mobile phones and no doubt many more to come. Did you know that CompactFlash (CF), Secure Digital (SD), MultiMedia (MMC) and even Memory Stick can have different transfer rates. This is the speed at

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2004-10-26 Thread Craig Ringer
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 13:37, Zytech - your online data and technology store wrote: With various Flash cards on the market you will see reference to card performance in either Mb/s or x. The 'x' rating system is easy, all you need to remember is 'x' = 150 Kb/sec. How nice of them to choose the

Re: CommPost: Zytech specials

2004-10-26 Thread Robert Howells
On 26/10/2004, at 2:51 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 13:37, Zytech - your online data and technology store wrote: With various Flash cards on the market you will see reference to card

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2004-10-19 Thread Zytech - your online data and technology store
Hi all! Ever had a CD/DVD stuck in your drive? Well, hopefully the following information may help you get over this frustration: Ok, so you've tried the keyboard eject key, the Command-E keyboard combination, you've selected the item in finder and clicked the eject button next to it, tried

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2004-10-12 Thread Zytech - your online data and technology store
Hi all! Following on from the last newsletter, if you thought 30GB was a big leap in DVD capacity how about 1 Terrabyte? One of our subscribers has brought to my attention Optware's holographic technology which is getting many people to sit up and take notice - thanks Mike for the info. Optware

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2004-10-05 Thread Zytech - your online data and technology store
Hi all! On the horizon - DVD's are set to have a huge boost in capacity in the not too distant future with the DVD Forum approving the physical disc specifications for the rewritable version of HD-DVD's. The recent meeting in Taiwan approved version 1.0 of the HD-DVD-RW specification, which

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2004-09-22 Thread Zytech - your online data and technology store
Hi all! Well with all good intentions the newsletter was ready to go out yesterday, but a fire near our web hosting company had cut all power to the area, and our site had been off line from Monday night till mid Tuesday - so for all those who had been trying to access the site, our apologies.

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2004-09-14 Thread Zytech - your online data and technology store
Hi all! A little RAID of sunshine. (Hey its the only corny thing I could think of!) RAID stands for a Redundant Array of Inexpensive (or Independant) Drives. While RAID comes in a few different forms, the most common are RAID 0 and RAID 1. RAID 0 is also known as striping whereby the data is

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2004-09-07 Thread Zytech - your online data and technology store
Hi all! Spring is finally here and I hope your weather was as good as ours to kick it off. I'm sure you've all had enough of the wet and cold weather and are looking forward to some spring sunshine! In case you missed it in the last newsletter, Apple have done a recall on certain batteries that

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2004-08-24 Thread Zytech - your online data and technology store
Hi all! In case any of you hadn't heard already, Apple have done a recall on certain batteries that are in the 15 PowerBooks due to them being possible fire hazards - check this link out for further details: https://depot.info.apple.com/batteryexchange/index.html It just so happens I'm writing

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2004-08-10 Thread Zytech - your online data and technology store
Hi all! Can you smell spring in the air? Well its a beautiful sunny day here anyway, and we have some more great deals with this newsletter. For each 80GB or 120GB 8MB cache Firewire external drives, we are offering a free 32MB flash drive. That's right FREE! - here are the links for the

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2002-10-14 Thread Zytech online store
We haven't had a memory update for a while so here goes - DDR (the RAM used in most of the latest desktop CPU's) prices are up with increased demand from China and major fabricators are continuing to struggle to meet demand. We've just had a forecast that standard SDRAM (the memory used by most

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2001-10-08 Thread Keith Palmer
Our 60GB FireCube has been a runaway hit in the few days we've had this drive on the site. Featuring the new Seagate Barracuda IV, this drive is probably the quietest hard drive you've ever (or NEVER) heard. At $599 complete (inc GST) the 60GB FireCube external FireWire drive has broken all