Another option for laptop users is to slap your memory card into a PC
Card Slot adapter. (Formerly known as PCMCIA slots--"people can't
memorize computer industry acronyms")
Using one on my OS9-era PowerBook, the CF card pops up on the desktop
as another disk icon, remembering its volume name, window
size/position and sort criteria between mountings. It's also a
wonderfully compact, cable- and software-free solution.
Dragging the JPEGs to a target folder on my hard disk seems
reasonably speedy--certainly better than USB 1.1--but I don't have
good numbers to quote. My digi is just 2MP and I'm rarely moving more
than 100MB at a time.
I believe that the CF card standard was actually based on PCMCIA;
which in turn was based on the IDE hard disk standard. (Possibly
someone else remembers the techie details better.)
In any case the CF-to-PC Card adapter is ridiculously cheap--like
US$9--leading me to think it's just a passive carrier without any
circuitry inside. The adapters for other card formats were more like
US$25.
cheers,
--Ross
>I'll check when I get home. It sure seemed faster than 5 minutes.
>But maybe I was just so blown over by how much faster USB 2.0 was
>than USB 1.0, I over-estimated.
>
>In any case, 5 min is fine. It's a far cry from the externity I used to wait.
>
>Skip
>
>----- Original Message ---------------
>
>Subject: [OM] Re: Q. for E-1 Owners
> From: "C.H.Ling" <chling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 22:48:31 +0800
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>>
>>Are you sure you can load 1GB in 2 minutes? I did 9xx MB yesterday with
>>Lexar 1GB WA card and Lexar USB2.0 Reader, it took me around 5 minutes.
>>
>>C.H.Ling
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