This past week, I had the chance to use a couple of the new products we recently launched, on a family trip. They were released with notebook users in mind, so this was my opportunity to actually sit down and "test drive" some of the products we offer - the SLIMDVDRW8U2 and NBFAN.
NBFAN came in particularly handy at times when I wasn't driving - the notebook I was using has never overheated to the point of failure, but I definitely noticed the fan doing its job, which gave me the peace of mind of knowing I didn't need to take breaks from what I was doing to let the computer cool down. The multi-speed setting is also a nice added touch - it's not an overly noisy product to begin with, but knowing that a quieter setting was available meant not having to remove or disconnect the fan when I did get into situations where I didn't want to draw attention to the fact that I was using the computer.
SLIMDVDRW8U2 was also a major convenience on the trip, as was justified by the sheer volume of digital photographs taken. The notebook I was working from is a couple of years old, and didn't have a built-in DVD-burner...so it was nice to be able to dump the pictures we had taken on to a disk in order to leave a copy for the rest of the family. Realistically, there were a couple of workarounds I could have gone with in order to provide copies - I could have used a lower resolution setting, or burned the pictures (over 300 at roughly 3.5Mb a piece) onto multiple CDs - but there's something to be said for being able to take high quality photographs and keeping them all on a single disk, especially when the images will eventually find their way to a printer.
