Transfer Files between Macs and PCs

Wed, 01/16/2008 - 4:27pm — Willow Cook

For nonprofits that work in a cross-platform office, The Tech Chronicles is reporting on a new device, the iTornado, that helps you quickly transfer files from one computer to another.

This USB device can hook up a Mac to a PC, or two PCs or two Macs, and directly transfer a file from one to the other at 25 MB per second.

Paul Andrus, the founder and CEO of Data Drive Thru Inc. of Dallas, demonstrated the iTornado, which looks like one of those retractable USB extension cords. With one end plugged into a MacBook and the other into a PC, software inside the iTornado created split screens on each computer listing all files. You can use either computer to drag and drop files from one to the other.

Data Drive Thru showed a PC-to-PC version of the iTornado at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show. Andrus said the new Mac-to-PC version is expected to be available by mid-March for $79.95 on the company's site, TheTornado.com, and in stores starting in April.

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