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Viking PC Card CompactFlash Adapter (CF-ADAPT)

Viking PC Card CompactFlash Adapter (CF-ADAPT)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Works like a charm.
Review: This Compact Flash Adapter work's great. All you do is snap you compact flash card into it and slap it into your Slot and bam! It is also much faster for me then hooking up my Digital camera to the computer using a USB cord and AC/DC adapter (saves on batteries). Faster in the hook up time and faster in downloading and uploading. I can highly recommend this product, I am very happy with it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Second Wind
Review: This device was the second wind my old Panasonic digital camera needed. I connect the camera to the laptop with a serial cable wich makes it to slow (No USB cable), so I tried this inexpensive alternative in order to revive my old camera wich still works perfectly. I needed a way to download the pictures from the CF card to the computer. Now, I can download in seconds what usually took hours.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great product!
Review: This is a fabulous device for transferring large volume of data from my handheld (Jornada 548) to my laptop, and vice-versa.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: So nice, so very nice
Review: This is a great little piece of hardware. I have used mine in both a Dell Latitude running WinXP and an Apple Ti800 running Mac OS X. It is the only way I transfer pictures now. Much easier to carry than a USB cable, plus it is faster, does not use up the batteries on the camera, and just flat out works perfectly.

Here is how I use it :
I take my picutres (duh ;-), remove the CF card from the camera and insert it into this adapter. Then I insert it into the laptop. Under both Windows and Mac, the CF card appears as a removable drive on the computer.

Under Windows, I navigate through a couple of folders to where the pictures are stored and copy them to a folder on my hard drive. On the Mac, iPhoto automatically opens up (because I have told iPhoto to startup automatically when a camera is connected) and it gets ready to transfer the pictures. I can then tell it to copy the pictures to my Photo library, and delete the originals. It does just that. Then on the Mac and PC, I tell the operating system to eject the drive/device, then I can pop the adapter out of the computer. Of course you can pop it out whenever you want, but you will definitely risk something bad, better to eject it the proper way. I can transfer a full 128 MB flash card to my computer is a minute or so. Fast enough that I haven't timed it.

So, I would highly recommend this to anyone who uses CF media with a laptop. It is the way to go!

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Real plug and play
Review: This real plug and play compact flash card reader is a must for every laptop owner. Any laptop has a PCMCIA slot, and every laptop nowadays comes with a modem , LAN , built in, so you use the PCMCIA slot for nothing, but the reader.
I usually keeps it plugged in the laptop, and take a backup for my critical files on it. With a 512 MB card, it really takes a lot, and provides me with peace of mind with an online , reliable and fast backup.
With technology, the storage capacity doubles every 12 months , and the MB/$ drops by half every 9 month. Soon, you will be able to buy a 10 GB compact flash card for the price of 512 MB nowadays. And, still , you will use the same reader !!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: No problems on Xp, huge problems on Win2k
Review: Upgrading my rating to 3 stars, since it works without a problem on XP. Still, essentially worthless for Win2k

Is it just me who has problems with this device on Win2k? Installed it in both a Dell and IBM notebook, with Win2k fully upgraded and all patches installed. Install went without a hitch, but when rebooting the machine at the end of the install, you have to leave the device in during the reboot. It looks for drivers for your CF card, but couldn't find them (tried two CF cards, one from Kodak, one SanDisk, same results) I had to upgrade the drivers by using Windows Update, since none are shipped with the device. Then, it still couldn't find the drivers and the Win2k Device Manager reports the device as not working properly, but Explorer can access the CF and read data. Of course, it requires an immediate reboot after you are done.

In short, there's no Plug-and-Play for me, and I have to manually clean out the device manager. Not what I envisioned. I also have a ZIO that connects through an USB port -- it comes with the required SW on a CD and works without a problem. I'd take it any day over this thing.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: It works
Review: What else can be said? plug it in and it works.....

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Was sceptical. Now not.
Review: When I first got this, I bought the card souly for transfering pics between my digital camera and my laptop while on vacation.

I have used the card for a little over a year without one hitch.

Since buying the card I have not once used the the camera's USB cord to transfer pics from my camera to my computers ( all xp r windows 2000). Why bother with the cord when this does it just as fast without the hassle of software, or cords.

I also use it to transfer files to my IPAQ and mp3 player.

Since no software is needed I also use it as my primary way to transfer files physically between computers. Just snap it in ... operating system detects it...start copying. So sweet a technology that actually delivers.

I'm usually highly critical of technologies but what can I say, it hasn't disappointed me once, I Highly recommend it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Easy to install, works great!
Review: Works great with Windows XP! No driver required! Just plug in the card and Windows automatically mounts it as a removable drive! Great price as well!


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