Thread: iPad Off the wall for the iPad 2 300gb-500gb internal SSD?
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Old 02-07-2011, 01:23 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by snipenekkid View Post
thanks Calstar. I haven't kept up on the SSD drive prices. 128gb would seem reasonable as the "new 64gb" option then. Still not bad at all. Amazing really, especially thinking back just 5-10 yrs.

I absolutly would not expect app side loading at all via an SD card. Only for documents and other data files and for backup. If the intent is something as completely awful as an EyeFi card, it would seem pointless and better to add a software solution to do what an EyeFi card would offer instead. I mean what would the point of having both BT as well as Wifi if the SD slot, something 99% of all users fully expect to be for storage and the modern equivalent of "sneaker net" to have anything to do with the camera connection kit would be a waste of resources to people like me and really the already existing functions on board, or is there something special the camera connection kit brings to the table?

I have to say that the eye-fi card is far from awful. I have one and it's one of my favorite purchases in the last few years. It's not a general purpose wi-fi radio, and it only works in supported cameras (though there are TONS of supported cameras). It simply transfers photos as you take them to your computer... almost like tethering the camera to your computer. It would be completely pointless in an iPad since the iPad already has Wi-Fi built in.

(Speaking of which, I have my EyeFi card set up for all the common unsecured networks, the city wireless networks, most friends and family networks, and several local businesses... all photos I take get put on my computer, into Dropbox, where they're accessible within minutes from anywhere)

It is also pretty amazing how fast storage space increases. In 2000, we bought an iMac and got the "big" drive option for video editing. It was 30GB. Now you can easily get 500GB in a laptop for less than that 30GB hard drive cost.
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