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4Gb CF Card Announced
An anonymous reader writes "Lexar has today announced that it now shipping a 4 GB 40x Compact Flash card. The card's claim to fame is the ability to store 600 RAW images taken with a 6 megapixel digital camera. This card also features Lexar's WA (Write Acceleration) technology which can improve performance further with WA enabled cameras. Because this card is larger than 2 GB, you will need a camera which is FAT32 compliant. This card is available now at the heady price of $1,499 ($0.37/MB). It looks like Lexar has managed to be faster then Hitachi (Former IBM storage division) with their 4Gb Microdrive."
The title says 4 gigabits, but the text says 4 giga bytes. 4 GB is impressive, 4Gb is not (512 MB).
You are never going to be able to take that many pic's without changing batteries so why not have a couple of cheaper 1GB cards and swap em out with the batteries? 1GB CF cards are as cheap as $228 you are paying a more than 50% premium for the denser storage.
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
Plus what is a typical life of a CF card ? I sure hope its more than 5 years If I am putting 1000$+ in it.
Plus the very though of loosing those 600 RAW images , if i loose the CF card is disturbing.
I would rather have a portable labtop with 20GB+ memory and a 1GB flash card.
for the last time people, I am "frodo from middle eaRTH", not "middle eaST".
That takes care of a single point of failure and it's $500 cheaper.
But if you only have 1 card- its in your camera. If you lose that card, you have FAR greater problems on your hands!
Conversely- if you are juggling 4 different little pieces of plastic, the ability to lose one is a lot easier!
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
...will be the elimination of the MP3 player market.
It frustrates me to no end that I carry around a rather remarkably-specced PDA that could handily play MP3s... but I'm hampered by limited storage. It's like being unable to drive your Corvette because you can't buy enough gas.
The high-capacity portable-medium format will obsolesce one device from my gadget arsenal. One less battery to recharge; one less file store to maintain; one less device for firmware, driver updates, and connectors.
David Stein, Esq.
Computer over. Virus = very yes.
What's the deal with measuring speed as multiples of ancient cdroms? How long is this gonna go on? Am I supposed to walk around with a pocket calculator in order to figure out what the actally speed of merchandise is? Quick: how many MBps in 48x?
It's like measuring the power of a space shuttle's lunch rockets using horse power. "Oh, you mean if we tie down 1 million and a half horses to the shuttle we'd be able to get it off the ground? Impressive..."
The power of Christ compiles you!