Here's a thought, instead of getting a portable HD which has moving parts, get yourself an iPod. 20 GB will run you $400. You can buy an adapter that will read media cards (Belkin media card adapter runs $100). Now you have a portable musics system, are able to download your pictures from CF cards, and from my understanding there are no movable parts inside of these things.
IL Bill On Sunday, December 7, 2003, at 08:18 PM, William Robb wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Brogden" Subject: Re: Vacation snaps with an Optio?
Unfortunately, that's not going to work unless they plan on having very
few keepers, and low res ones at that. A 3MP p&s digital will produce a
3MP .jpg file somewhere in the range of 1-2MB, give or take. Many email
services limit your attachments to around 2MB, for the simple reason that
files that large take a long time to send and receive. Even upgraded
Yahoo and Hotmail accounts only offer 10MB of mailbox storage. If they
have access to computers (presumably with CD-RW drives), perhaps they
could burn CDs. Mail a copy, keep a copy.
I just saw a 30 gig portable hard drive for what seemed pretty reasonable,
under 300 dollars, I think.
Are these things worth it?
William Robb
