Macworld Expo: a final look at some new hardware

At Macworld Expo last week, ATI was showing off its forthcoming Radeon GPU (Graphics Processing Unit). AGP and PCI versions will ship in September. It will compete with the new Voodoo 5 5500 PCI graphics accelerator from 3dfx, with 64 MB of graphics memory. Orange Micro showed a USBoard 2.0 PCI board. Backwards compatible with USB 1.1 peripherals, it can boost USB speeds (with new devices) from USB 1.1's 12 Mbits/s to 480 Mbits/s. Imation unveiled its Travan FireWire 20GB drive (available in the fourth quarter). Castlewood was giving a peak at a new MP3 recorder/player that can connect to your computer or function as a stand-alone unit. LaCie was showing a forthcoming double-capacity DVD-RAM drive and new FireWire CD-RW drives. XLR8 announced that it would soon be shipping a MACh Fire CardBus.