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To: Tumbleweed who wrote (12077)	6/20/2000 7:05:00 AM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (1) of 60323

Nice find, Joe. The math says microdrive will cost $499.99, or about as much as a decent 2.1 megapixel camera. I think the sweet spot for storage in digital cameras right now is 16 to 64 MB range for most of the starter digital cameras and even the higher resolution offerings of 2.1 to 3.3 megapixels. Clearly 1 gigabyte is overkill for a digital camera and the cost is prohibitive. I loved these remarks... "Visitors to the New York PC Expo on June 27 will have the first public glimpse of IBM's 1GB Microdrive, the latest in IBM's range of after-dinner mint-sized disk drives. IBM thinks the new drives will "turn today's digital still cameras into genuine movie cameras" by almost trebling the storage capacity accessible from a standard Compact Flash Type II interface." Not really. "Movie cameras" (also known as "camcorders") have digital tapes that are about $10 a piece and hold 10x the data of the latest microdrive. Also, "trebling" or "tripling"? "The key to this success, said Fox, has been IBM's disciplined decision to resist packaging Microdrive against a proprietary interface, and instead make a significant investment in custom microelectronics which allows the Microdrive to fit the now nearly ubiquitous (in most laptops) Compact Flash Type II slot. Perhaps partly due to the availability of the Microdrive itself, Compact Flash is also fast approaching near-ubiquity in the digital camera space too." CompactFlash approaching near-ubiquity due to microdrive??? Funny, I thought it was the other way around. Ausdauer

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