Sony Memory Stick - Your Helpful Guide (Sony Memory Stick)

Member Name: aaxec

Product:	Sony Memory Stick
Date:	28/07/00 (373 review reads)
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The future of univeral compatibility maybe here in the
form of a Memory Stick. Although Sony designed it i'm
not going to call it the Sony Memory Stick. The
reason is that, as in the past, Sony invents and
everyone takes and improvises.

Anyway, the Memory Stick is a storage media for
Digital cameras, computers and even the silly Sony
robot. They are only some of the products now
available, and the list is growing throughout many
product categories. Imagine half a pack of chewing
gum, well, that's the size of a Memory Stick.

For example you plug the Memory Stick in your digital
camera and you can save your pictures, you could then
attatch it to your computer and download the pictures
onto your hard drive. Like Zips and floppies, the
media can be reused. So lets say you've downloaded
the pictures onto your computer you can then delete
them and put the Stick into your mp3 player and save
music onto it.

The Memory Stick initially holds 4 MB, 8 MB, and 16 MB
capacities. I think we can safely assume higher
capacity sticks in the future.

Sony's hope is to make Memory Stick a universal
standard for digital equipment. If Sony is as
successful as they hope to be, the price for Memory
Sticks should drop as the market grows and technology
advances.

Adv:
The speed will be excellent, and response should be
instantaneous - no need to spin a disk up to speed
before you can access it.

Dis:
But from a strictly computer perspective, media looks
very expensive. A #1 CD-R can store 650 MB, a #10 Zip
can hold almost 100 MB, but the #37 Stick has a
capacity of only 16 MB. It's really something for the
future so only a few specialist places deal with them

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