12 Toys of Christmas for Techies 2002 Our annual 12 Tested and Suggested Xmas Techie Toy Gifts Tenth Toy of Xmas New - Palm Tungsten T $499.00 retail, $449.00 street with rebate. Palm devices still beat “Pocket PC’s” hands-down when it comes to ease of use, reliability and productivity. Palm has just “upped the ante” with the brand new Tungsten T in the PDA wars and we really like it.                Sporting Palm OS® 5.0, a 320x320 pixel 65k color TFT screen and a nifty telescoping case which hides the Graffiti pad until you need it; the Tungsten T is only 4” H x 3” W x .6” Thick and 5.6 oz. It also has embedded Bluetooth wireless connectivity (will replace USB cables), voice recording & speaker, stereo headphone jack, IR Port, a SD/MMC Expansion Slot and the new 5-Way Navigation “jog wheel”. A USB sync cradle is still included with the Tungsten T. Eleventh Toy of Xmas Iomega 2.5in 30GB External Firewire HDD Storage/Backup system for Notebooks (Mac or PC) $259.99 -$20 mail-in rebate. The Iomega® 20GB USB Portable Hard Drive is a complete solution that makes security, recovery and data storage easy. With QuikSync™ automatic backup and disaster recovery software, you can easily save, archive, and protect all of your documents, files, photos, videos, MP3s, and games.                 QuikSync is so incredibly easy to use, anyone can backup their computer and this 2.5in model is perfect for notebook computer users, whether it’s a PC or Mac. We tested it on both and loved it’s simplicity and ease of use. No more excuses, backup your notebook before it’s too late! TechDepot (Office Depot online) $239.99				Twelfth Toy of Xmas Well everyone is getting into making their our movies on DVD, aren’t you? Now that you’ve got the DV-camcorder, how are you going to share those home grown cinema spectaculars? The Pioneer DVR-A04 internal DVD Writer/ReWriter, is the least inexpensive and quality unit we could find for you Windows PC users (You could have bought a Mac with a SuperDrive™) at only $349.99 retail and an amazing $239.00 lowest street price (Hyper Microsystems).                Pioneer's DVR-A04 drive writes and reads DVD-RW, DVD-R, CD-R and CD-RW media, and also reads CD-ROM and DVD-ROM discs. The drive offers up to 4.7GB of storage capacity on a single sided DVD disc. Pioneer's DVR-A04 also provides wider compatibility, higher speeds, lower noise, UDMA33 support and buffer under-run protection for both CD and DVD recording. The DVR-A04 prevents buffer under runs for both DVD and CD media through the use of a unique Loss-less Linking scheme. DVD-R/DVD-RW Speed: 2x/2x , CD-R/CD-RW/Read Speeds: 8x/4x/24x Buffer cache size: 2MB Interface: ATAPI (ATA/ATAPI-5, MMC3, SFFC INF8090 Ver. 5) Bundled with the drive are: Sonic MyDVD new Video Suite Edition, authoring, ArcSoft ShowBiz, video editing & effects, Cyberlink PowerDVD XP 4.0, movie player, Veritas RecordNow DX, DVD & CD R/RW recording, Veritas DLA, packet writing, Veritas StorageGuard (all for Windows) Merry Christmas! We here at Tech-edge e-zine hope that you have the best of Holidays, and in the spirit of giving and getting, you get everything you want. Of course you had better not been naughty, just nice; or Santa will only leave a lump of coal in your Christmas stocking.
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