The first iDrive system that debuted in 2001 on the E65-generation BMW 7-series included a control knob meant to mimic a computer's mouse. The proliferation of smartphones over the past decade-plus ...

Pour one out for the iDrive knob. Nearly a quarter-century after debuting in production form back in 2001 in the E65-/E66-generation 7-series and becoming a staple of the carmaker's models, BMW is ...

Pour one out for the iDrive knob. Nearly a quarter-century after debuting in production form back in 2001 in the E65/E66-generation 7 Series and becoming a staple of the carmaker's models, BMW is ...

Two decades after its debut in the 2001 Series 7, BMW’s iDrive infotainment system is among the best on the market. It’s about to get even better — think, natural language processing, gesture control ...

iDrive has you covered six ways to Sunday when it comes to backup. Online, local, sync, NAS support, imaging, disaster recovery, online workspaces, snapshots, hard drive shipment… You name it, the ...

Oddly enough, one of the best ways to back up your data to an external hard drive comes from a cloud storage company. I’m referring to iDrive, which offers a free local backup utility inside of its ...

Automotive screens get seemingly larger every year, but none are as big as the room-size dashboard that BMW used to showcase its next-generation cabin technology suite at CES 2025, with a touchscreen ...

Our own Ed Loh called it "an idea so simple, so elegant, yet so powerful it was to change the way the world interacted with the automobile." Arthur St. Antoine said it was a "maddeningly convoluted ...

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IDrive has both local backup versions and cloud-based backup, but IDrive Express is a service that merges the two. If you find yourself in an area that doesn't have fast, secure Internet (no broadband ...

View post: This ‘Compact’ and ‘Powerful’ Tire Inflator Is on Sale for Just $20 at Amazon The home screen consists of customizable tiles that let you choose what you’d like to display. I like the ...

IDrive gives you the tools to tools to backup your entire drive to the cloud while also letting you drag and drop files a la Google Drive. An excellent suite of tools for local and internet backups, ...