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To: limtex who wrote (13840)	8/11/2000 9:41:49 AM
From: Steve 667	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

limtex, GM and Ford make more money because they charge less than Rolls Royce or Ferrari for each car. Wall mart makes more money than Saks because they charge less for their inferior products so they sell more. Starting to notice a pattern yet? Sandisk charges about the same price for their cards as does Lexar or Delkin. Notice the pattern is broken here. Do you think GM and Ford would have made as much money or even survived if they charged RR or Ferrari prices for their own cars? Doubt it. Think about it. Steve 667

To: limtex who wrote (13840)	8/11/2000 10:28:47 AM
From: Ausdauer	Respond to of 60323

Next thing you know someone will be accusing this guy of being a SanDisk shill... From Rob Galbraith's website... Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 23:57:47 From: Alan Youngblood Subject: IBM microdrive Rob, As I have mentioned on the D1 discussion list a couple of times, we have for the most part abandoned the Microdrive. We started getting D1's in late December. During December and January we were transitioning to digital as our stuff straggled in. My original plan was to go with all microdrives. However, During that one month period we had two microdrives go belly up. Fortunately, I had many MD's still in the packaging so I sent them back and traded them for Sandisk 128 meg cards. The two [IBM microdrives] that went down, I had no choice but to keep of course. When they returned, I gave one to my guy with a D2000 and put the other one in a pool camera. The microdrive has worked fine in the D2000. The reason I bailed on the Microdrive was because they failed during a time of light usage and cool Florida weather. My thought was that if these things were failing in this situation, a hot humid summer day in full daily use was disaster waiting to happen. I didn't feel to bad going to the smaller capacity card either because we shoot in Fine JPEG mode all the time and editing 233 images at a time was getting to be time consuming. The staff hasn't complained either. They like being able to get the images off their cards. Alan Youngblood Photo Editor Star-Banner Ocala, FL Ausdauer, the original SanDisk shill