Heartland purchases

How does one go about buying from Heartland? Everytime I check the website, it has a pop up that says store opening soon. How can you find out what is available and how much it costs? I am looking to buy a Smartcard reader and a fingerprint reader but have no way of knowing how (other than calling them and asking).

 

Uh... Yup... You need to call them and ask them.

Depending on which model you want it for... The Fingerprint Reader kit is around $160 + shipping. And it is totally worthless. I wanted one in the worst way and now never use it. It had a coolness factor for about 5 minutes... The 5 minutes it took me to log on because it wouldn't read my fingerprints!

What smart card Reader are you looking for? They make generic ones. I picked up one for my express slot on ebay for $10. It works great!

 

I'm curious why the poor reliability? Do all fingerprint readers perform half or is it just the ones panasonic uses?

 

I have one on a Thinkpad, and my experience there has been similar: hard to get a reliable reading on the first try (moved the finger too fast or too slow, or finger not perfectly aligned, or finger too sweaty on hot summer days). Plus given that the interface is started during bootup, it suffers from the same phenomenon as the XP bootup in general, where things look ready but they are actually still loading. I'm never quite sure if the thing is really ready to read. So generally I cancel the fingerprint interface and type in my password, it's faster and more reliable.

But I still want a fingerprint reader to fill that blank plate on my Toughbook...

Björn

 

I have a fingerprint reader on my Toshiba satellite, well it was my Toshiba until my mom needed it, now I am trying to get a working CF-28 that I just bought. Now I have to return to exchange for a new used one. But anyway the fingerprint reader worked great for me. I think it depends on the maker of it and location of the reader. I used the reader just to log in though because my password was so long but besides that it is not worth the extra cash. =p It is still coolish to show off lol.

 

If you hold the laptop a certain way... And then you moisten your fingertip... And then you hold you finger a certain way... And then you swipe it at the correct speed... And then if the stars and moon are lined up correctly....



It happens to every one that I have ever tried... Dull brand as well as the Panny. Perhaps there are newer, better ones out there... But I haven't seen them yet...

A good password with lower & upper case as well as numbers and characters is better and ultimately quicker. It's just not as cool.

 

over priced garbage.

 

I have the fingerprint reader and the one panasonic uses is made by upek. I have one for my desktop as well made by upek.

The one on the toughbook works a little better than the one on my desktop. The fingerprint reader made by upek are so much better then any other fingerprint reader i have ever used.

To me it is worth every penny as i use to log onto websites the computer and all sorts of other things.

I have had several people try to swipe there finger and no one has been able to log in yet. I have set the reader to the more secure mode and i do not have a problem with it not getting my fingerprint. I use it with dirty hands wet hands etc and it works almost every time unless i swipe crooked or too fast.

Once you get used to the way the upek fingerprint reader works it is a simple swipe and you are logged in.

-James