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Rating:  - Nothing better than a half-gig hard drive for your Pocket PC
It's probably a little early in the CF card's lifespan to write this review, but I'll focus on potential uses rather than reliability.I basically bought the card for my HP Jornada 567 Pocket PC 2002. It already had 64 megs of memory, but I wanted more. I also already had a 256 MB card for my Nikon Coolpix 775, so this one was more for the handheld than anything else. My HP can playback MP3's directly off the CF card without modification, and with drag-and-drop functionality from my notebook's hard drive, which is nice. That way I can store around a hundred songs for music on the go, which I typically listen to in the car, using a cassette adapter through the HP's headphone jack. I also enjoy watching movies on the go, and with the downloadable Windows Media Encoder, I can reformat almost any movie file into .WMA format, and bring it with me. The card could conceivably store three full-length feature films at 192 x 144 resolution without much problem. It's also great for carrying large text documents with you wherever you go...like, say, your novel, technical manuals, the Bible, as well as a couple dozen songs, and still have room for a movie or two...amazing! I don't know how I got around without this baby. Another plus is that you will *never* run out of space while taking photos on vacation with your digital camera, even at the highest settings, unless you do field work for National Geographic. So far, this card has changed my definition for personal entertainment and functionality. Viking makes pretty good hardware, too. Just watch out for any rebates they offer (there was no offer on *this* card, but be careful). Now I'm just waiting for the Gigabyte card...
Rating: - Massive capacity and cheap to!
I've been using this 512mb card for the past 3 weeks and really love it. At hi-res my camera (Fuji Finepix S602 Zoom) can shoot 400 pictures with minimal read/write latency. For the price I paid, [$$$]- including shipping) this memory is a great storage investment. Add a PCI adapter card and you have an instant portable data drive. There may me faster memory out there, but the price to performance ratio on this is absolutely astounding. It's much better than I hoped for.
Rating: - Oh Yeah!
A CF card is a CF card is a CF card.
It's hard to justify spending big bucks for the biggest name when it comes to memory.
I just bought this, so I can't speak to long term, but so far it is flawless. I love having an extra half-gig of memory on my Pocket PC.
If you're seriously looking into expanding memory, do what I did and wait for a rebate on this card. With a ...rebate, this was the lowest price I have ever seen for CF, and less than half that of cards sold in stores.
In short, a great card at a great price.
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