The wheels, they are in motion. Sony today announced that they’re selling Sony branded SD, SDHC and MicroSD cards to accompany their lineup of SD card products launched earlier this year. But the real question is: When will they finally take Memory Stick out the back and shoot it in the head?
I prefer CompactFlash cards to SD, despite the bulk, for speed and durability. (Also, I shoot with big cameras that take big cards.) SD card version 4.0 fixes the speed issue, with transfer speeds of up to 300MB a second.
The new SDXC standard (which theoretically tops out at 2TB) replaces SDHC in 2010, and according to DailyTech, some of the bigger laptop makers may add SDXC support to their upcoming laptops with 32nm Core i5/i7 processors.
On one hand, it’s great to see the SDXC standard—which theoretically tops out at 2TB—flexing its muscles a little but. On the other, I kinda wish Toshiba wouldn’t announce an SD card six months before release.
Aside from photo transfers and straight up storage expansion, the SD card slot in the new MacBook Pros has a single, extremely cool trick up its sleeve slot: it’s bootable.
The Gadget: Today Eye-Fi Wi-Fi-enabled SD cards have been upgraded with a 4GB Pro version with new features like support for RAW files, selective uploading and the ability to send files straight to your computer with via an ad-hoc network.
