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Non-Tech : Iomega Thread without Iomega -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BBG who wrote (6705)	1/24/1999 10:37:00 PM
From: Cameron Dorey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

Wow, de ja vu all over again. I bet we could save everybody a lot of time and effort just by playing the exchanges on this topic on the Real Iomega thread and the SanDisk thread from about a year and a half ago. Nothing has changed at all, except the Iomega product is now a reality. The Iomega product is still about 1/10 the cost of flash memory, after you buy the drive, as it was predicted to be then (flash has gone down in price about 50%, and the Clik! disk is going for the price originally proposed, but its capacity has doubled), there are wild statements about flash becoming really cheap fast, but the guys still can't do the math (down 50% in 18 months (Moore's Law) means a bit over 3 years before a tenfold reduction occurs), the same tired cry about battery life (from the same tired soul, no less). The only thing that is missing is the claim that flash memory is so much faster, I guess because somebody actually looked at the specs on the SanDisk site and found access times about the same as a spinning hard disk. Give it a rest, folks, or at least look at what has already been said and come up with some new drivel. Cameron "Those who do not study History are bound to repeat its mistakes. Those who do study History will find NEW mistakes to make."

To: BBG who wrote (6705)	1/25/1999 12:46:00 AM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 10072

>>I think you're reaching a bit... with the "What if you're on vacation..." scenario... Fact is high capacity flash is a better solution than CLIK!... the price is dropping fast and it won't be long IMO before it equals or is even lower than CLIK! especially if you take the cost of the CLIK! drive out of the equation... I'll believe the CLIK! built in camera when I see it....<< BBG - How is the vacation scenario a reach? A 96MB flash card will hold fewer pictures than three 36-shot rolls of film. I think a lot of vacationers use more film than that on an average trip. You say "Fact is high capacity flash is a better solution than Clik!" Well, a Mercedes E320 is a better car than a Ford Escort. High capacity flash does have advantages over Clik!, but it's also far more expensive. Yes, the price of flash is dropping fast. But do you really seriously believe that it can go from a current wholesale cost of more than 2 dollars a megabyte to a retail cost of 25 cents a meg? In how long? And what makes you think Clik! disk prices will be static over the same period of time? Finally, if Clik! is successful as an aftermarket product, it is inevitable that it will find its way into digital cameras. - Allen