05-05-2004, 07:00 PM
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Executive Editor
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Pretec Announces 12 GB CompactFlash Card
"Cranking up the heat another notch in the already crowded CompactFlash market, Pretec Electronics has introduced the world's first solid state CompactFlash memory card with a storage capacity of a whopping 12 GB. The card, which will be available by the second half of 2004, will sell for $9,999 USD. In conjunction with the announcement, Pretec also announced that it would reduce the price of its 6 GB CompactFlash from $7,499 USD to $3,499 USD."
The march continues - nice to see them dropping that 6 GB card to an affordable $3499 USD. ;-)
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05-05-2004, 07:12 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Apr 2002
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Re: Pretec Announces 12 GB CompactFlash Card
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
"Pretec also announced that it would reduce the price of its 6 GB CompactFlash from $7,499 USD to $3,499 USD."
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Wow, the price got cut by about 55%. This and the whole Hitachi 4GB Microdrive story, makes me wonder whether manufacturers are overcharging us in the portable storage market.
1. The price of an expensive CompactFlash card gets cut in half, almost literally over night.
2. People buy $300 MP3 players and strip out the Microdrive instead of buying the same Microdrive alone for $500.
Granted, it's their product so I guess they can charge whatever they want, but it makes me wonder how much consumers would be paying if they were only paying for the actual production cost of the item at hand.
C'mon Pretec, how about reducing the price of your 6GB CF to a nice affordable $34.99 instead of your $3,499?
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05-05-2004, 07:26 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Mar 2002
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Curious (not really in the market) ...
Do our devices support 12 GB, hardware- and OS-wise?
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05-05-2004, 07:54 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jun 2002
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Originally Posted by PPCRules
Curious (not really in the market) ...
Do our devices support 12 GB, hardware- and OS-wise?
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Yes. somebody tried in H3000 with PC sleeve and PC card hard drive, no problem.
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05-05-2004, 07:59 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Jun 2002
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OK, I'll admit as a techie I agree that you can never have too much bandwidth, too many mhz, or too much storage space.
Now having said that... I'm having a tough time imagining who is using the card. Sure I'd love to get rid of my Archos Jukebox 20GB player (with my ENTIRE music collection on it) with a single card in my PPC, but $200 for the Archos vs. $10,000 for the Pretec card is astronomically out of scale.
I'm not at all saying the card is not a good idea, or that it won't suceed. I'm just genuinely (for the first time in a long time) unable to imagine a user who needs it so badly they would pay that price.
This would make a good poll. What is the maximum card size someone in our community actually uses regularly? (Note that NOT "owns" its "uses regularly.")
Who is Pretec selling this (and/or the 6GB) to?
- Super-high-dollar fashion photographers who simply can't stand to "stop the shoot" to change cards in their cameras?
- Uber-rich techies who refuse to carry an iPod and demand all their music in their PPC?
- CIA operatives using "sneaker-net" to carry top-secret data stolen from foreign goverments back to Langley hidden in their socks? :wink:
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05-05-2004, 08:00 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Mar 2004
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i'm sorry but $10k for a CF Card? that is crazy. even $3,500 for a cf card. with that much money i can do so much more damage than buy one cf card. where are they getting these prices? i can't see paying more than $1000 for a 12gig cf card. even that seems like pushing.
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05-05-2004, 08:15 PM
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Moderator
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Originally Posted by Mark Johnson
Who is Pretec selling this (and/or the 6GB) to?
- Super-high-dollar fashion photographers who simply can't stand to "stop the shoot" to change cards in their cameras?
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That would be my bet!
Steve
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05-05-2004, 08:29 PM
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Pontificator
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"I'm sorry honey. We would have had enough money for the down payment on that house you wanted, but I just HAD to carry all my music with me every day!" :rotfl:
Almost $1,000 per gigabyte - you have to be kidding me.  ukeface2:
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05-05-2004, 08:39 PM
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Moderator
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Believe it or not, I don't think we are the targeted consumers here! :wink: I don't think anyone expects Pocket PC fanatics to run out and buy these cards...
O.K., back to your regularly scheduled rants... :twisted:
Steve
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05-05-2004, 09:24 PM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
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In a few years we'll all have one.......... Moore's law - gotta love it! :wink:
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