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To: Steve 667 who wrote (1929)12/3/1997 9:22:00 PM
From: W. Frank   of 60323
 
Miniature Card vs CompactFlash

The Intel Miniature Card is currently available up to 8MB. 64MB is the maximum future capacity due to address limitations.

CompactFlash is currently available from SanDisk up to 24MB. Since CF uses an ATA interface its maximum addressable space is many GB just like a hard disk.

Cost per MB is not lower for Miniature Card. Miniature Card's market share is low and getting lower.

There was a recent article regarding the Intel camera kit. It's title was something like "Intel's Digital Camera Kit Gets Lukewarm Reception". The reasons for this are:

1) The kit requires that you have a PC available to see the picture that you have taken. No LCD screen is supported. If you have ever used a digital camera you know that one of its neatest features is to see the picture immediately and show it to other people or decide to delete it and take another shot because someone had a weird look on their face. The idea with the kit is to move data compression and creation of a file format that can be viewed to the PC. This is aimed at reducing the cost of the camera by using a lower power/cost processor in the camera. The problem is that it eliminates some of the major features desired in a digital camera.

2) Miniature Card is not finding any support.

Hope this is helpful.

W. Frank
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