steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: >on 2014-11-18 15:11 Mark Roberts wrote >> steve harley wrote: >> >>> if you need substantial storage, a generic "portable" USB hard drive is even >>> cheaper - you'd have to power it >> >> There's the rub. I'd prefer to get by without powering it. > >well you do need some power for thumbdrives, presumably a lot less than for >a spinning disk > >but once you start carting around batteries and fumbling with weird hubs >another option sounds appealing a cheap netbook; for example, without >doing any serious research i came up with the ASUS K200MA 3lbs., 11.6" >screen, 500GB, SD slot > >i don't know squat about Windows netbooks (for one, i'd be tempted to put in >an SSD and install Linux), but at $280 it seems like it might be a good >value as a minimal photo backup/review station
I use my Android tablet. Small, light, has an SD slot and a full-size USB. Transfers files from the card to the thumb drive and also lets me view them. More expensive than a netbook, though. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
