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12 GB CompactFlash cards announced.
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http://www.pretec.com/
Available in the second half of 2004.
When the iPod mini goes 8 GB, I'll probably buy one. (I already have an iPod 3G 15 GB.)
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$9999 haha 
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yeah. 9999 is an fsking joke.
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And curiously enough, from the same company, the 3GB CF card costs a whopping $1,490, and the 4GB card is $1,860.
And a 4GB iPod Mini is how much?
Don't ask... I don't know why either.
Either way, it certainly suggests an iPod Mini's HD size can get rather a lot larger in the not too distant future.
Btw, one site that reported the 12GB CF cards from Pretec said they were nearer $15'000 
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The worst thing about having a failing memory is..... no, it's gone.
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Would camera's even understand what to do with that much room?
Is the data compressed somehow?
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Yeah, I don't expect the price to really be $9999, at least after a year or so. And while I don't expect to see 12 GB iPod minis soon, I do expect to see 6 GB ones within the year, and maybe 8 GB next year.
12 GB is overkill for most cameras obviously, but there's more to CF than cameras. 
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Originally posted by Grrr:
And curiously enough, from the same company, the 3GB CF card costs a whopping $1,490, and the 4GB card is $1,860.
And a 4GB iPod Mini is how much?
Don't ask... I don't know why either.
Either way, it certainly suggests an iPod Mini's HD size can get rather a lot larger in the not too distant future.
Btw, one site that reported the 12GB CF cards from Pretec said they were nearer $15'000
Note, this appears to be a compact flash card, not a Microdrive. CF has no mechanical moving parts, and in general CF parts are more expensive than Microdrives, for the same size.
I'm not all that surprised by the initial list price of the card. That's very high density, and the bleeding edge of the curve is expensive. It will drop by a factor of 5 within 2 years, I'm sure.
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Originally posted by CatOne:
Note, this appears to be a compact flash card, not a Microdrive. CF has no mechanical moving parts, and in general CF parts are more expensive than Microdrives, for the same size.
That, and the fact that retail prices are way higher then what they actually go for.
I'm not all that surprised by the initial list price of the card. That's very high density, and the bleeding edge of the curve is expensive. It will drop by a factor of 5 within 2 years, I'm sure.
So it will retail for "only" be $2000 in 2 years. 
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