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To: Londo who wrote (21398)	12/30/2001 11:23:28 PM
From: NHP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

More on CFHD Londo, I appreciate your comments, and am in total agreement with you on, "When you have a device that forces people to open up their computer cases......." . I also agree that the device would be slow, but that depends on your reference. Compared to a hard drive, it would be slow, but compared to a floppy or a CF card in an ImageMate, it would be fast. I really didn't have the hobbyist in mind when I wrote my letter to SanDisk. In the letter I mentioned the possibility of having a company such as Dell or Gateway offer the device as an option for their PCs. SanDisk already sells such a device, the FlashDisk. The main difference between the FlashDisk and the CFHD is that upgrading with the latter merely means powering down, inserting a new CF card from the front of the PC, and re-booting. But, the real advantage to the CFHD, assuming hot swapping, would be quickly getting photographs from the camera onto the PC. The CFHD could completely replace the ImageMate. Two disadvantages, as things stand now, are the inability to hot swap, and the need to use another of the scarce IDE connectors in the PC. Regards, NHP

To: Londo who wrote (21398)	1/2/2002 8:53:47 AM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

"When you have a device that forces people to open up their computer cases, and hook up their floppy drive cables to devices, you've just exited the marketing realm of the consumer, and strictly into the computer guru area - a much smaller market." Londo, I think that is exactly right. You can only ask so much of the electronics consumer. There is a history to the 3.5" floppy bay. For a while I believe CompactFlash was disadvantaged by the fact that it did not fit into a floppy adapter like SmartMedia or Memory Stick. For that matter Sony's floppy disk-based cameras were much more attractive when resolutions were low. But over the last 2 or 3 years the consumer has been asked to purchase USB extensions for most new appliances, even those which allow a direct connection to a digital camera, for example. The floppy adapter is a great tool, but the latest cameras demand higher performance. I think it is a bit late to ask Michael Dell to begin including a PC card bay in a desktop PC, but for a while it was probably a great concept. It would be the desktop equivalent to the PCMCIA bays found in most laptops. But I think that window of opportunity closed some time ago due to the lack of a single standard format for removable flash media. The battle continues. Take a look at HP's latest photo printers and you will see no less than 3 flash media slots!!! Aus