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To: Pam who wrote (33640)	9/30/2006 10:27:48 PM
From: inaflash	Respond to of 60323

I think, as soon as s/w starts getting distributed on Sandisk's OTP cards, we can get rid of CD/DVD drives just like we got rid of floppy-disk drives. Why don't we just have a memory card reader instead, in the UMPCs? Normally a USB port itself should be enough but a memory-card reader comes in handy because one can easily transfer pic's from different DSC's and hopefully videos from DVR's down the road and also all sorts of data from a whole slew of gizmo's floating around that use nand flash memory cards. I do not know why this hasn't happened yet? Hopefully it will start happening next year! Glad you mentioned this. I agree that the casual user would greatly benefit from this and I hope we see more standardization of these readers. However in some secure environments, the trend is going the opposite way. Here's a sample article: eweek.com The floppy shuffle has turned into the FlashDrive shuffle in some places, so people are already doing it with USB. However, data theft is becoming a greater concern, and in some companies, the USB ports are being shut down for fear of lots of data theft (32GB+ easily hidden in the palm), and of course, no burners. Ironically, the network is probably still open and people can e-mail their way out, but I guess the security guys can monitor the network, and getting out lots of data might catch their attention. As far as making readers a standard, by the time everyone agrees on SDHC as the universal standard, something new will likely come around.