If there’s one thing digital photographers and videographers know well, it’s the agony of running out of storage. To that end, Taiwain’s Pretec has introduced 64 and 100 GB 233x Compact Flash cards with access speeds up to 35 MB/s. Pretec is no stranger to the high-performance CF market: its 48 MB card was the previous “world record holder,” and its 33X 32 GB and 50 GB cards can handle up to 50 MB/s.
If 100 GB of storage isn’t enough for a single CF card, Pretec has a solution for that too: configure four 64 GB CD cards to create a 2.5-inch, 256 GB SATA drive using Q-SATA, a Pretec-proprietary technology that can configure up to four SF cards as an SSD drive.
Pretec is offering the 233X 64 GB and 333X 32 Gb CF cards now for suggested prices of $399 and $630, respectively, although they haven’t announced any pricing for the 100 GB CF card.
Mozilla is giving Firefox’s Smart Window two new tricks. If you haven’t tried it yet, Smart Window is an optional AI mode in Firefox with a built-in chat that helps you get things done while you browse. With this update, it can fill out online forms using details from your tabs and keep an eye on websites for you.
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The absolutely absurd idea of putting a touchscreen display on a mouse isn't exactly new. Turtle Beach already did it with its Command Series MC7, which features a 2.25-inch control screen. But apparently, even that wasn't ridiculous enough for Arctic Fox Technologies. Its new Super Mouse looks like someone took the chunky old Atari ST mouse, slapped a touchscreen and scroll wheel on it, and called it an upgrade.
The result is a rather unusual-looking mouse that is now on Kickstarter, starting at $199. And as ridiculous as it looks, some of its features are genuinely intriguing.
Apple is less than a day away from launching its highly anticipated OLED MacBook Pro with a touch-sensitive screen. But it appears that the upgrade is going to cost a pretty penny. According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple is reportedly eyeing a starting price of $2,899 for the 14-inch MacBook Pro, while the 16-inch version could start at $3,399 in the US.
"At $2,899, the 14-inch model would mark the highest starting price for a new MacBook Pro model, surpassing the $2,799 Apple charged for a 17-inch version introduced in 2006," says the report. The report claims that Apple is targeting a minimum price hike of $400 for its upcoming redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models.