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I think the above screenshot makes it abundantly clear that VGA is the future, and considering the 720 has a CF slot, I'd much rather have a 720 + a large CF card or Microdrive as opposed to a LifeDrive.
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You could also argue that the future is also greater integrated storage. In this regard PalmOne is taking the initiative with devices like the Lifedrive. |
Why? Buy a device with an integrated hard-drive and you have two problems: 1) You are stuck with that size of hard-drive; and 2) The device needs to be bigger to allow for ventilation. Buy a device with a CF slot and you have a slimmer PDA with the ability to upgrade your disk size over time. All the advantages with one of the disadvantages. |
There are couple things wrongs with your assumptions though. First is that CF storage accessories will always be competitively priced with solutions found in integrated devices. I don't think you can assume that. Second, you rely on CF as a sustainable interface standard for the future. IMO, in the future you will see fewer devices with CF, not more. |
Reality proves you wrong: this same argument of yours came out 2 or more years ago, on these boards, when 1 GB SD cards were announced; and they took more time to come on the market than expected as well. Then you only had 4-5 devices with CF card slots: ipaq 2200, the Toshiba e750, the Asus MyPal a620, the FSC PocketLoox 600 and the Axim x5. Right now every manufacturer makes their top of the line with both CF and SD slots and even HP has 2 lines and 4 models, Dell has 3, FSC has 3 too (710, 718 and 720), Fujitsu has 2, Toshiba has 1 (e830), etc. That's at least 13 devices, or almost 3 times as many!!! not less.
Furthermore, 2-3 years ago you only had 2 Microdrives on the market: 340 MB and 1 GB, flash cards came in up to 1 GB versions and did cost a lot more than microdrives.
Nowadays, Hitachi (ex IBM Storage division), Seagate and a few others also make microdrives in so much higher capacity than SD cards: you can regularly find 4GB flash CF cards from many vendors at many different transfer speeds; Sandisk, PQI, Kingston, SimpleTech and other less known manufacturers have them. Likewise you can find 4, 5 and 6 GB microdrives from 2-3 makers. Pretec even has 12 GB CF flash cards.
What about SD cards? you're very lucky if you can find the 2 GB SD card from the unique manufacturer Sandisk; AND this card was announced LAST OCTOBER for a Nov 04 release!!
Just click on those many PPCT links to that card, only to see 3 out of 4 vendors have been out of stock for the last 6+ months and the one that has some charges $390 for them!!!
The days of CF cards (and slots 8) ) are very bright and shiny for the long foreseeable future!!
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