Since there have been two requests recently for info on the use of CF cards in PowerBooks I figured I'd give my two cents, citing personal experience in using this option on both a 5300 (c, cs, and now ce) as well as a 3400c. Basically, I didn't notice a difference when using the cards for VM storage in either battery life or overall performance, but when used as a boot drive with all applications and files on the CF card, with the hard drive spun down and un-mounted, I noticed a HUGE increase in battery life (almost eight hours with my 5300!) and the disk tests proved to be faster than the 4200RPM drives in either PowerBook. Both my 5300 and 3400 have 64 meg RAM and are running OS 9.1. The only glitch I've had using CF cards as drives is getting them to format properly (apparently SanDisk has security software on the drives that cannot be removed which also cause problems formatting/optimizing) but through multiple attempts that was overcome and it has been smooth sailing since. In reality it's no different than getting any other PC formatted disk to be used as a Mac bootable disk, simply format in the desired setting, then install software. (I'm currently using one as a rescue disk, the other as an archive/travel drive).
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