Aluminum and Glass Apple Stream

MacHappens — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:40:03 +0000

This inclusion in the Al SiO₂ series, isn’t even an existing Apple Product. While it does look exactly like a Photoshoped iPod touch…., in distorted reality it is so much more.

After a fruitless search for a mobile, streamlined way to extend the storage capacity of the iPhone and iPod touch (without nand soldering or time travel skills), the *Apple Stream concept is born.

The Apple Stream is a mobile WiFi content server, the same size as the iPod touch.

You connect to it as you would any wireless network, and navigate the content through a built in website. The advantage is that this battery powered network is in your backpack or pocket.

This solution enables all rich internet devices to extend their capacity.

The Stream has varous storage capacities, and can also connect to an external drive for limitless storage.

*If apple ever did offer a device like this, it would retrieve and integrate the content automatically… with your favorite Apple branded device.

I prefer the open content idea, though I’m not a billionaire either.

via MacHappens

Samsung SSD Flash Drives

MacHappens — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:35:02 +0000

Many have been eagerly awaiting the emergence of affordable, high capacity Flash drives on the market.

Enter the Samsung SSD (Solid State Drive) series of Flash drives.

Samsung has posted a video revealing some impressive specs and vs. HDD benchmarks.

Low capacity Flash thumb drives have been affordable for some time. They are very useful for usbooting a Linux OS, or transferring files. That said, some of us simply want more room to move, and a speed increase to boot.

While Samsung has been shipping similar flash and hybrid-flash drives for some time now, it finally looks like they’re ready to enter the mainstream with the slick SSD series.

My future solid state MacBook…

Apple has a history of packing innovations like this into their Macs, though usually with a gradual phase-in, and/or a premium price tag.

Update: Check out Ryan Blocks Samsung 64GB SSD transplanted MacBook Pro here.

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