…you might want to think things through. Yes, it’s an awesome feat of technology in its own right (we covered some of the highlights here) but it does have a lot of limitations. By far the largest limitation is that it runs on an iPhone platform—not an open operating system like you’d normally have on a cheaper standard netbook. As such, the iPad’s platform ties pretty much everything you want to run on it to Apple’s own services.
If you’re serious about your gaming, then you probably already have a sweet setup, with a fast machine, and gaming-grade peripherals that includes a high-end keyboard and a laser mouse. With all that stuff going on, you’d be forgiven if you just used any old mousepad that you can pick up for a dime a dozen. But if you’re really serious (yeah, italics kind of serious) about your gaming, you might want to upgrade your mouse mat too. Here’s where Razer’s Vespula mat comes in, with two types of surfaces designed for either speed or accuracy.
Ok, it’s actually just the MyBook external drive that they’ve released in the past, but enhanced with a USB 3.0 interface. If you’re looking for serious file transfer performance from an external drive—for animation, graphic design, or plain old large-file-transfers-that-you-can’t-wait-to-get-done—Western Digital’s 2TB MyBook 3.0 offers up to 5Gb/s, or ten times the transfer speed of traditional USB 2.0 drives.
If you’re one of those people who relies heavily on networked equipment at home (desktops, laptops, consoles, net-connected appliances such as set-top boxes and HDTVs), Asus was thinking of you when they introduced this kit, a consumer-level server called the Home Server TS mini, to give you a centralized place to dump and retrieve the data across different devices.
Here’s something you might want to check out if you’re looking for a little bit more security from something that should be as simple as a flash drive. Kingston has just announced the DataTraveler 5000, a drive with a capacity of up to 16GBs and enough data and physical protection that’s good enough for the government.
