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  Inside Apple's new Chatswood store

  Apple selected a shopping centre in suburban Sydney as the location for its second retail outlet in the Asia Pacific. Our photo gallery takes you to its grand opening.

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  Iomega Media Xporter 160GB

  Iomega dresses the Media Xporter in a fancy casing and tries to pass it off as the ideal companion for your games console, but really, it's just an average external hard drive.

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  Eight tips to make your home eco-friendly

  Cnet.com.au's top tips to turn your home into a more eco-friendly household.

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  Servers in the home remain scarce

  Microsoft tried to make fun of the notion of a home server with a faux children's book. However, it faces the real challenge of trying to convince consumers that they want to install a server at home.

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  Toshiba USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive

  The Toshiba USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive is an attractive drive with a decent price. Its size makes it great for travel, but we can't recommend it due to its lack of performance.

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  Apple updates Leopard to 10.5.4

  Apple has released Mac OS X 10.5.4, the fourth update to Leopard since it was released last October.

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  Conceptronic Grab'n'GO CH3SNAS

  Conceptronic's Grab'n'Go NAS is a solid offering that comes with enough features to keep the home user happy.

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  Netgear ReadyNAS Duo

  The ReadyNAS range is a perfect addition to a household that needs not just storage, but control over that storage. Now if only Netgear could do something about the price.

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  Photos: Inside Apple's Sydney store

  Apple took the wraps off its first Australian store today. Here is a sneak peek of what is inside the big glass walls.

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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.

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  Being Suspended is a good thing

  The Welland Greenstar Hard Disk Drive Enclosure claims green cred through a power management technology that shuts the drive down automatically when data transfer is complete.

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  Motorcycle memory key feels the need for speed

  The SanDisk Extreme Ducati Edition is a 4GB stick that looks like a motorbike and claims to have the performance to back up its looks.

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  The golden wave of storage

  How to make an external hard drive look sexy? LaCie's trick is to whack on a layer of gold.

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  To advance drives, Hitachi changes the head

  Hitachi's giant magneto-resistive head will have perpendicular current and will allow the company to increase the density of drives.

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  Seagate announces first 1TB drive

  Seagate Technology is serving up its first 1-terabyte hard drive. The company announced today that it will offer a retail hard drive, beginning in the third quarter of this year.

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  NETGEAR makes your media go faster

  For budding home networking enthusiasts, NETGEAR has announced the availability of its latest external drive, the Storage Central Turbo (SC101T).

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  Price drops ahead for solid state drives

  Solid-state drives are still going to be somewhat hard to find and expensive in 2008, but mass production, cheaper flash memory, and tech advances will start to change that in 2009 and 2010.

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  Toshiba ready for 2008 in a solid state

  Japanese memory chip manufacturer Toshiba announced yesterday that it will be showcasing a 128 GB NAND-flash-based solid-state drive (SSD) at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in early January.

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  Iomega Media Xporter 160GB

  Iomega dresses the Media Xporter in a fancy casing and tries to pass it off as the ideal companion for your games console, but really, it's just an average external hard drive.

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  Toshiba USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive

  The Toshiba USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive is an attractive drive with a decent price. Its size makes it great for travel, but we can't recommend it due to its lack of performance.

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  Conceptronic Grab'n'GO CH3SNAS

  Conceptronic's Grab'n'Go NAS is a solid offering that comes with enough features to keep the home user happy.

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  Netgear ReadyNAS Duo

  The ReadyNAS range is a perfect addition to a household that needs not just storage, but control over that storage. Now if only Netgear could do something about the price.

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  Sony BWU-200S Blu-ray burner

  If you're in the market for Blu-ray authoring, Sony has produced a decent device. Everyone else will most likely stick to their vastly cheaper DVD burners for a little bit longer.

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  LaCie LaCinema Premier

  The LaCie LaCinema Premier is a relatively quick and easy-to-use media streamer and external drive that won't burn holes in your coin pocket.

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  Linksys NAS200

  Linksys's NAS200 is marred by slow performance, high noise and lack of flexibility compared to its D-Link competitor.

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  D-Link DNS-323 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure

  The D-Link DNS-323 is a great network storage device for beginners and professionals alike.

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  Seagate USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive

  Seagate's USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive delivers solid performance at an attractive price.

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  Netgear ReadyNAS Duo

  The ReadyNAS range is a perfect addition to a household that needs not just storage, but control over that storage. Now if only Netgear could do something about the price.

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  Netgear ReadyNAS Duo

  The ReadyNAS range is a perfect addition to a household that needs not just storage, but control over that storage. Now if only Netgear could do something about the price.

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  Western Digital My Book Studio Edition (1TB)

  The My Book Studio Edition is a welcome addition to the My Book family, and should find a home on many Mac and PC users' desks.

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  Corsair Flash Survivor (16GB)

  Corsair's Survivor is a flash drive that's nigh on impervious, and sports 200m water resistance.

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  Corsair Flash Voyager (16GB)

  Corsair's ruggedised stick just got bigger.

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  D-Link DNS-323 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure

  The D-Link DNS-323 is a great network storage device for beginners and professionals alike.

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  Lightning GT

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  Please Explain: Dual Clutch Transmission

  2008/08/08 16:47:15

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  Electric cars at the 2008 London Motor Show

  2008/07/30 14:31:11

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  Inside Apple's new Chatswood store

  Apple selected a shopping centre in suburban Sydney as the location for its second retail outlet in the Asia Pacific. Our photo gallery takes you to its grand opening.

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  Photos: Inside the Apple Macintosh Classic

  The Apple Mac is one of the most famous and easily recognisable personal computers ever manufactured. This photo gallery takes a look inside Mac Classic -- and what technology was like in 1991.

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