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fri 2005-jan-07 16:19:33 pst   ...   permalink


SanDisk has announced plans to release an SD card with a built-in USB connector -- eliminating the need for a card reader. Personally, I'd prefer to have my laptop have a built-in SD card slot, but I guess there are just too many flash memory card "standards" for very many computer manufacturers to actually build one of them into a laptop. (Though of course Sony includes Memory Stick and I have seen an IBM laptop that had a built-in CF slot...) Given that I can't have built-in SD on my laptop, I suppose built-in USB on the card is a reasonable solution. It just seems so inelegant.


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fri 2005-jan-07 20:01:19 pst
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I should have clarified -- the link is to a picture of it, not just a news story about it. Although I think the concept is inelegant, the design is pretty clever.


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