Posts by Chris Mellor 1

Apple SD Cards fuel (more) Mac tablet chatter

Apple not leading the market

Dave Simpson sent me this note: "The point I am still trying to make is laptops have had SD card slots for a long time - my old HP (dead now but bought 4 years ago) had one."

"Apple is not leading the market here. They are behind. Every netbook on the market already has an SD card slot and most consumer and business laptops have SD card slots or multi-card readers so your comparison of express card slots to SD card slots sounds pretty amateurish at best, especially since most laptops have both. It is a bit like saying including DVD-RW will compete with SD card slots when the two are for different things."

"I realise you warned the readers about Savolainen, but I feel someone should have warned you. His information is complete nonsense and he simply pulled it out of his ass to drum up some investment in Sandisk which you have happily reproduced into an article. Not that I'm complaining - you can write and spell which is a big advantage on the internet these days. It would just be nice to read the usual mature informed opinions that I'm used to on The Register."

My thinking is that of SD card slots and ExpressCard slots are both used for flash and Apple adopts the SD card slot at the expense of an ExpressCard slot then that is interesting.

Chris.

Mimosa unifies NearPoint archive operations

Mimosa has a cloud extension beta test

Mimosa has announced a cloud extension of its NearPoint product as a beta programme with LiveOffice. The two are trialling CloudMerge for Mimosa NearPoint. This is SW that connects Mimosa’s on-premise archive to LiveOffice’s cloud-based archive.

Chris.

Toshiba hopes for 3D flash chip within three years

Square millimetres

The 600mm and 156mm die sizes in Jim Handy's quote are referring to the area of the die - length X width - and not the die's length or width measurement alone. They should have read 600sq mm and 156sq mm to make this clear. They do now.

Chris.

WD 2TB Caviar Black appears on promo card

WD's no comment comment

A western Digital spokesperson sent this message: "WD has definitely not announced this product. As you are aware WD do not announce a new product until the company is shipping, which is not the case today."

Chris.

Symantec rides dedupe roadmap to backup software

Symantec not trying to buy InMage

I'm assured by Eric Burgener, SVP marketing at InMage, that there is no truth to the rumour that Symantec is trying to buy InMage.

Chris.

HP sees techies living in a box

A year old

HP first announced its PODs almost a year ago, in June 2008 - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/16/hp_pod_data_center/

The number of included servers has gone up since then but not the number of disk drives. We might think it could be a bit of a solution looking for a problem. Until we get sales figures we won't know.

Chris.

STEC answers the billion dollar question

STEC and MacBook Air

It was reported/speculated in May that STEC has won a design win with Apple for the MacBook Air.

Chris.