At the risk of being flamed, for my hard earned, you cant go past the big battles between real spaceships and modern day fighter craft and weaponry in Independance Day (Will Smith et al). Now bring it on!
A little nitpick, the current IBM notebooks (T40/T41) do not prohibit non IBM mini-PCI card use. As with most laptop manufacturers, they probably wont support someone elses cards (and who would??), but I have a Cisco Aironet 350 MPI (MiniPCI) installed in my (formerly) Centrino IBM ThinkPad T40 which works fine (and IBM say this IS a supported configuration). The Centrino 802.11b chipset didnt support the security features I needed when I purchased the notebook (MIC, TKIP, LEAP/PEAP, etc) so I turned my Centrino notebook into a basic Pentium M powered device with a Cisco WiFi card.
Not long after I got my digital camera, I went on a 10 day holiday OS. I had to take my laptop with me to download the photos each day or two and I really wished this unit was around then.
This nifty unit is the ultimate answer to your friend's (and my) dilema. The image tank has a laptop hard disk in it and a USB interface, with both CF and SmartMedia Slots.
It has the option of between 20 to 40 GB of storage and is pretty small, reasonably light weight and rugged. It has a 12VDC adaptor, 100-240VAC power supply and based on most cameras putting out around a 1MB JPEG for the average shot (3.3Mp) it will store around 40,000 images before he will have to download. There are adaptors for Sony MemStick, SD Mem, etc.
How do I know of these?? No, I dont work for them, it is on my Xmas list!. See this site -> http://www.image-tank.com/
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At the risk of being flamed, for my hard earned, you cant go past the big battles between real spaceships and modern day fighter craft and weaponry in Independance Day (Will Smith et al). Now bring it on!
A little nitpick, the current IBM notebooks (T40/T41) do not prohibit non IBM mini-PCI card use. As with most laptop manufacturers, they probably wont support someone elses cards (and who would??), but I have a Cisco Aironet 350 MPI (MiniPCI) installed in my (formerly) Centrino IBM ThinkPad T40 which works fine (and IBM say this IS a supported configuration).
The Centrino 802.11b chipset didnt support the security features I needed when I purchased the notebook (MIC, TKIP, LEAP/PEAP, etc) so I turned my Centrino notebook into a basic Pentium M powered device with a Cisco WiFi card.
Not long after I got my digital camera, I went on a 10 day holiday OS. I had to take my laptop with me to download the photos each day or two and I really wished this unit was around then. This nifty unit is the ultimate answer to your friend's (and my) dilema. The image tank has a laptop hard disk in it and a USB interface, with both CF and SmartMedia Slots. It has the option of between 20 to 40 GB of storage and is pretty small, reasonably light weight and rugged. It has a 12VDC adaptor, 100-240VAC power supply and based on most cameras putting out around a 1MB JPEG for the average shot (3.3Mp) it will store around 40,000 images before he will have to download. There are adaptors for Sony MemStick, SD Mem, etc. How do I know of these?? No, I dont work for them, it is on my Xmas list!. See this site -> http://www.image-tank.com/