I was going to say that, but... obviously, I didn't. Recently I bought a
128MB card for $25.00 at Crucial. My 1GB cards all cost under $80.00.
Just before Christmas, my son bought a 256MB Type I CF card for
$70.00. Actually, they were out of 256's, and that was not discovered
until after the order was placed. They upgraded the card to
512MB. Knowing what I know now, he would have bought it somewhere else,
because that was much too expensive for both sizes of cards.
Now, if you go to places like Best Buy, you will pay a fortune, but if you
shop around online, you will find some great deals.
At 05:20 PM 8/20/2005, you wrote:
However, to say they haven't come down in price is absurd!
I was able to find a one gig card for $135 in 2003. However, I can now get
a two gig card for under $110.----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Howell" <n3byy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 6:54 AM
Subject: [bookport] Re: The Cost of Improvement
So ah, what's your point. Are you saying these cards are less reliable, are they not suited for this purpose, and no one was saying its a pda. I'm just pointing out there there are less expensive alternatives to the flash card which as far as I can tell hasn't really come down in price compared to other technologies for the cost. Matter of fact and I could very well be wrong, the cf cards are more expensive in terms of capacity for cost than any other card on the market.
Hi Scott and list:
The card you're thinking of is most likely SD cards which are now being used in the HumanWare BrailleNote Mpower. They work fine in the PDA arena. Just don't lose sight of the fact that a bookport isn't a PDA.
Cheers, Dave
