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To: JesseK who wrote (6954)	9/12/1999 8:19:00 PM
From: orkrious	Respond to of 60323

Anectodal evidence on the LRCX thread that digital camera sales are soaring. Message 11226926 Jay

To: JesseK who wrote (6954)	9/12/1999 10:18:00 PM
From: Ausdauer	Respond to of 60323

Jesse, I was in CompUSA this weekend as well and noticed (as always) that they are selling Lexar flash memory. They previously had Viking, PNY and SNDK on display, but no longer at our local branch. In general, all electronics seems marked-up at the retail level. For example, I paid around $100 for my 48 MB cards and $140 for my 64 MB cards this summer at an e-mall. I don't think the prices you quoted were out of bounds. I haven't priced Lexar at CompUSA recently, so I have no comparison. Maybe Lexar is selling them for a higher price wholesale, thus the mark-up? They will need all the cash they can get to pay their legal bills and to pay Eli when they finally face the music. I hope it is September, Jesse. We have been waiting a while for this. I also hope... SanDisk = retirement Ausdauer

To: JesseK who wrote (6954)	9/12/1999 10:30:00 PM
From: Ausdauer	Respond to of 60323

Jesse and Thread, Read this today in a buyer's guide for Palm PC's... SmartMedia are by far the cheapest of the small cards...The current size announced is 32 MB, but the current size available in the United States is 16 MB. The reason for this is that older cameras will not recognize the larger memory formats. CF cards can carry system updates that allow old cameras to recognize the greater memory size, but that is not so with SmartMedica cards, since there are no "smarts" inside, just bare memory. Because of this confusion, no manufacturers of 32 MB SmartMedia cards are willing to sell them in the US; they are sold only in Japan, where consumers are considered more techno-savvy... This answers my question as to why 32 MB SmartMedia are so hard to find. I have just recently noticed Lexar 32 MB SmartMedia on sale. I suspect these are intended for user of the Diamond Rio or the high resolution Olympus C2000. Previously they were almost impossible to get your hands on. Ausdauer