I wouldn't underestimate technological progress. Actually, I would, and I
have, only to be proved wrong and be surprised over and over. It's one of
the things that's fun about my business. I just bought a 4gb SD card for
$87. If you'd told me I could do that just a couple of years ago, I'd've
said you were nuts. It wasn't that long ago that 4gb CF cards were a $4000
experiment. 8gb were $20,000. Now, I bet 8gb cards drop below $100 in the
next two years.
The amount of music one might accumulate is probably going to grow more
slowly than the capacity of storage. I bought my son a 256mb memory stick
1.5 years ago for Christmas. It cost $120. For myself, I just bought a 2gb
Sandisk for $47.
I know it's not the same form factor, but on the laptop I just bought I have
a 100gb hard drive. In my office, spinning, I have over 2tb of disk space
-- and that's just retail stuff; Maxtor and Seagate and Western Digital
external drives. They're tiny and cool and quiet. The technology is
leaping forward. I just put a 300gb Seagate HDD in my son's computer; paid
$169.95 for it.
I would not be at all surprised to see merged devices with 60gb or 80gb
hdd's in the next year. I just hope Palm keeps up, or can keep up. I'm
having to put in a hacked driver just to run the 4gb card I'm expecting from
Newegg.
Cheers,
Don
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jeff
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 10:09 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Treo] One device for all? - phone to take over mp3 players
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Local storage is nice, but I have a 65GB collection -- not likely going to
be an SD card with that capacity at an affordable price in this century.
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Years ago, a 10g laptop hd was unthinkable. 60g's are out now.
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