"Stephen Harris" <cyberguard-1048@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> ray wrote:
>> On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:56:55 -0800, aniramca wrote:
>>
>>> To****ba announced it in August 2007 last year and they indicated
>>> that
>>> it will be ready for January 2008. Panasonic has just introduced it
>>> recently for market use in the latest CES convention. It heard that
>>> it
>>> costs about $700 in Japan.
>>
>> Considering that currently 1gb and 2gb cards are available for $10/gb
>> or
>> less, I'd have expected it to be around $300.
>>
>
> It doesn't work that way. Circuit City, a large electronic chain store
> in the USA sells 1gb Sandisk SD for $15 and 2gb for $20. OTOH, Fry's,
> another big chain store had a 500gig hard drive on sale for $99. Two
> 500 gig drives equal a terabyte drive, but those sell for around $400.
>
>
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=380&SRCCODE=WEBGOOFLASH&CMP=KNC-GOOGL
>
> Transcend 1GB Secure Digital Card = $14.99 I see some at Amazon.com
> $10
>
> Transcend 2GB Secure Digital Card = $19.99
>
> Transcend 4GB Secure Digital Card = $29.99
>
> Here you are paying $5 for every gig over 1 gig
> but $15 for the original 1 gig SD card. State of
> the art is never pro****tional to the established
> technology for instance 32gig SD or 1TB hard drive.
>
> Older technology gets more expensive because of less
> demand. A new 40gig hard drive costs nearly the same
> as the currently popular 160gig. Same way with older
> style memory compared to the newer faster memory.
For once we can beat the US hands down.
1Gb Sandisk SD cards £6.99 (or a scratch under $14) in my local (UK)
supermarket - not even a specialist.
From a specialist (albeit in the Channel Islands where there is no tax)
unbranded 1Gb at £3.29 or about $6.60, or Dane-Elec (which are To****ba -
and it is printed on the back) at £4.49 or about $9.
--
Woody
harrogate three at ntlworld dot com
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