Apacer joins the ranks of Kingston, RiData and Lexar in introducing a flash drive with ReadyBoost, the technology that is supposed to give not so agile Vista systems a light kick in the right direction. Apacer’s solution comes in the form of its 1GB Handy Steno, a flash drive that decides to conform to the sides of say a notebook instead of jutting out and waiting for to be snapped off by accident.
This however posses a little problem when used with desktop systems, because of how it is angled, it couldn’t fit in the front facing USB ports of the PCs we attempted to test it on. It did however manage to fit well in the rear facing ports, but it only does so by effectively blocking and rendering the neighbouring port completely useless. Looks like this is one pro-notebook device, but thankfully a nice looking one.
We weren’t completely sure if the ReadyBoost feature really increased the efficiency of a Vista notebook running on a meagre 512MB ram. But we think it did, and we do like the fact that we can allocate the amount of space to lend to the ReadyBoost function.
The one true saving grace of this flash drive however is its fast read speed. The official estimate is 17MB/sec, but we did often get results of 30MB/sec or more during our tests. One last thing that’s also nice is the little red flag that not only looks like a great little piece of branding; all you need is to give it a tug and the flash drive safely tumbles out.
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