Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/01

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Subject: RE: [Leica] New Holy War--Film Scanners
From: Phong <phong@doan-ltd.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 12:36:29 -0400

Ernest Nitka wrote:
> I'll jump in quickly to say that I got a USB 2 PCMIA card for my 
> Powerbook and it transfers data from an external hard drive almost as 
> fast as the same hard drive in firewire mode.  So for Macs it's either 
> USB 2 or Firewire as USB 1 is too slow in my opinion.

Let me add, perhaps needlessly, that the same solution exists
for Windows laptops (and desktops, though of course it is a PCI card).
I bought one for about $40 and it works very well for external drives,
Compact Flash card and Microdrive readers, etc.

- - Phong


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