[Leica] Cards to transfer information

[lrzeitlin at gmail.com (Lawrence Zeitlin)]

Mark asks:
"I have a question. As I now have a slot on the left of my laptop for sd

disks and  its more convenient than logic would indicate.


Can I use a card like a flash drive? Do people do that?

It seems cheaper, smaller and more convenient then those plug in things for

transferring information of the digital sort not just pix and movies."


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Sure you can. As you told me, a 2 GB card costs about the same as a package
of cigarettes. As a non-smoker I wouldn't know what a pack of cigarettes
cost but my smoking friends tell me it costs a lot. But far more convenient
are those little thumb drives that you plug into the USB ports. Your MacBook
has two USB ports. The thumb drives cost even less than SD cards. More
important, they fit just about every computer made in the last 10 years,
even those without SD slots. And that, in fact, may be the answer to my
question about computer hard drives. Three or four 16 GB thumb drives,
costing about $20 each, will give me all the back up storage capacity I
need.

Larry Z