Nikolay Dorofeev van Digit-Life heeft de IBM Deskstar 60GXP schijf op zijn testbank gehad en vermeldt zijn bevindingen in deze review. Deze generatie hardeschijven is uitgerust met platters van 20GB en is beschikbaar in de smaken 20, 40 en 60GB. De schijven draaien op 7200 RPM, hebben een buffer van 2MB en hebben ATA-100 ondersteuning.
Bij de harddisk wordt een utility geleverd waarmee je de harddisk op "quiet" mode kunt zetten, dit gaat echter ten koste van de snelheid. Je kunt het verschil best wel horen als je oplet, maar als je schijf in een gesloten kast zit en je let er niet specifiek op is het verschil nauwelijks te horen. Hieronder een gedeelte uit het artikel:
The previous IBM model - DTLA - didn't like working with controllers which did not support Ultra ATA/100 mode.Though realizing that it is not a thorough testing I've set the mainboard controller to Ultra ATA/66 mode and run the Ziff-Davis WinBench All WinMarks test during 8 hours. There haven't been any failures. I hope they will be absent as well with the controllers on HighPoint chips.Conclusion
The disc is undoubtedly very fast. It is a leader in speed characteristics. The electronic system works flawlessly. The only thing I'm concerned about is the platters... The graph is not so good, especially considering that IBM has never had any problems with reliability. Anyway, the time will reveal everything the disc is capable of.
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We love the idea of the USB pocket drive and think it a cute idea for the company to include a neck strap. So finally the geek days of carrying a bag full of floppy disks is over, welcome to the post 90’s era, revolution of computing with style. A typical scenario for this device could allow a user to work on an office document, at home, on the laptop, at work and on a MAC. Most computers today have USB ports so even sharing your favorite MP3s is easy. We like the price we like the style, we like the speed. This is for sure the geek keychain to have, not to mention the better alternative to the Sony Memory stick. Give those Sony VIAO users something to think about eh? If only more portable devices such as handhelds and MP3 players supported this USB drive. Frankly it is a wonder so few people are making this type of device. Definitely, the Pocket USB drive is a winner in our books. Good Job JMTek, we always enjoy well made great performing, genuinely useful products!
After doing some experimenting with all kinds of different multiplier & FSB settings, I found this CPU to be stable at 1470Mhz (or 1.47GHz) using a multiplier of 10x, the FSB set to 147Mhz and a core voltage of 1.85v.
I even did some more testing to check if the CPU couldn't be kept stable if I pushed the CPU speed even further but I found out that this CPU cannot handle this kind of torturing because I had 2 major crashes by attemping to reach the 1.5GHz barrier 


In putting all of these pieces together, it would seem that the only conclusion that can be made is that
the Athlon platform has really picked up in the past few months. With 3rd party P4 motherboards
relatively non-existent, and Socket A based motherboards increasing in market share, the momentum
clearly seems to be with AMD at this time.

Still, the folks from America's heartland have added a number of innovations on top of the Palm
operating system, such as allowing people to hide the area on the screen normally reserved for
entering text via Palm's Graffiti handwriting recognition software. This allows more display room
for programs such as maps or e-books. The unit also has a built-in speaker and can record
voice messages.