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Lowepro Fastpack 250

Although it's a solid backpack for toting some pro gear and a large laptop, the Lowepro Fastpack 250's design still has a few rough edges.

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Optima A121

Optima's A121 has a nice feature set, but poor headphones and an asking price that's only just shy of Apple's superior Shuffle player make it a hard player to recommend.

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Kingston flash hard drives, DDR3 on the way

Kingston Technology expects to bring a flash hard drive to market by early 2008.

One in four SSD-based laptops fail

Notebooks with solid state drives (flash-based) cost more than traditional hard drives, are "an order of magnitude" less reliable and do not perform as well when using Microsoft Outlook.

Can Seagate steer hybrid-drive market?

Price and industry standardisation remain barriers to widespread adoption, but the biggest hard-drive maker could force competitors to keep pace.