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To: Walter Morton who wrote (10567)	4/21/2000 6:07:00 PM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (2) of 60323

The IBM microdrive Message 13476105 My vigorous objections to the IBM marketing efforts relate not to SNDK, but to all members of the CFA who are selling CF and promoting the de facto standard. Some 44 companies are listed as CF manufacters. Inaccurate information hurts everyone and sets the whole CF movement backward. My e-mails were not met with sympathetic replies. Well, I guess the lesson is that anyone can twist facts to tailor them to their marketing efforts. I have received an e-mail indicating that IBM really didn't do anything wrong by listing inflated prices for CF in the piece Walter found. I was even reprimanded for posting inaccurate information here on SI... There is only one supplier listed on all of the www.shopper.com portal that carries the microdrive. That site is IBM's site. The listed price is $449.00 on shopper.com, but when I went to IBM's web page it was actually listed at $379.00. I stand corrected. commerce.www.ibm.com I still take offense to the fact that a 64 MB CompactFlash is listed as costing $300.00 a pop. I found several different CF suppliers on www.shopper.com making cards in varying capacities that well undercut the $300.00 water mark that IBM implies... The Kodak 64 MB CompactFlash Picture Card $123.00 us.buy.com Simple Technology's 96 MB CompactFlash $190.00 us.buy.com SanDisk 128MB CompactFlash $225.00 us.buy.com The other important point is that the i2GO is not portable with a microdrive plugged in. I stand by everything I have said and make no apologies. Ausdauer

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