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To: Craig Freeman who wrote (3263)	6/16/1998 8:26:00 PM
From: AB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Craig, looks like the Sony HiFD is not quite ready for prime time! 207.240.177.145 With a bit of luck, this release will slip past the Xmas selling season. Kind of a shame though, it sounds like a good product for a PC. Anthony

To: Craig Freeman who wrote (3263)	6/16/1998 8:34:00 PM
From: James Choi	Respond to of 60323

>Sony must exist in a non-Newtonian universe because HiFD drives >read at 3.6MB/sec. and write at 1.2MB/sec ... FASTER than any >SNDK CF product. That transfer rate by itself is possible. What is not possible under the law of physics is to avoid paying the price. I assume it is the burst rate at the top spin speed. I would like to see the actual writing speed when it wakes up from its stand-by mode. It will be dismal. At the top spin speed, it will drain current to the point that it will feel warm to touch. For it top keep up the performance, i.e. to keep spinning, it will need a battery pack that is comparable to the ones used in cellular phones at least. Imagine attaching one of those to your camera. If SONY's electronics is so good that it won't need much power, then we would have already seen Walkmans that works continuously for weekss without changing the battery. And no moving parts can be as shock resistant as a solid state device. Although Mavica might be a big seller now in the consumer market where people are more interested in novelties (toys) than the image quality, that floppy storage will be too small and too slow as people start demanding higher quality images. That's physics. They can't defy it. James Choi