[From Nigel Ashcroft] If you want the best performance from memory cards then there is a very good editorial over at neswsday.com which details which details which cards perform better and details arious scenarios of card use. Makes for good reading. "Cameras, MP3 players, smartphones, palmtops, digital picture frames: Unlike PCs and their spinning hard drives, most of these portable devices rely on some form of removable solid-state memory. In fact, the no-moving-parts movement is even beginning to challenge the hard drive as a primary storage medium for portable computers. Witness two ultralight laptops: Apple's new MacBook Air has a permanently mounted 64 gigabyte solid-state drive, but the ASUS Eee uses Secure Digital cards for storage.
SD is rapidly being supplanted by SDHC, or Secure Digital High Capacity, as well as mini and micro flavors of the same standard. There are a number of buzzwords in this arena - Compact Flash, xD, MMC Mobile and Sony's Memory Stick formats - and the documentation that comes with your machine can tell you what, specifically, you need to expand the capacity. "
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