>Yeah, everyone uses USB for this stuff mostly these days, and SDcard is >a lot more prevalent. (CF mostly lost the format wars, despite being >simpler, and in many ways faster. I think the physical form factor -- >which is inappropriate for mobile devices like phones -- is probably >what killed it in the long run.)
It will take SDXC before it has sufficient capacity and sufficient bandwidth before it will find itself in the more expensive cameras (e.g., the Canon 1D/5D/7D: these will write upto 64MB/s (or more) when shooting jpegs) >So would you complain if pcata were to go away? Can you use a USB based >CF reader on said laptop (or perhaps a cardbus version, which would fit >in the same slot, and be a lot faster?) I've no problem now that I've learned that it is so slow. Beside, pcfs is so slow that it doesn't perhaps matter all that much. >> I also have a pcwl (Orinoco Gold) card that I use on my laptop >> occasionally because the built-in interfaces tend to stink royally. >> > >Yeah, I think there are still a lot of folks using pcwl. Which is kinda >unfortunate because the driver lacks some important workarounds/fixes >for some errata. (Which mostly hurt the miniPCI version of pcwl.... >badly enough that I consider miniPCI Prism 2.5 cards to be completely >unusable with the pcwl driver. At one point I was going to try to fix >this, but I've since mostly lost interest since I don't use my one >laptop that had one of these cards anymore -- it was a Tadpole SPARCLE) I started to use pcan and later I got an Orinoco; both were fine (I actually made pcan work on the PCMCIA slot in the sbus card) The question is really one of: what do you want to gain by removing this feature? Casper
