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Summary: A photographer in CA
Review: I've had this reader since May, 2003 and haven't had any issues. It works flawlessly with my G4 iMac and G3 iBook.I have a Minolta 7Hi and a 512MB CFII card. When the card would be nearly full, my Minolta's batteries would be depleted before the pictures would be downloaded to the computer (about 20 minutes!!) through the camera's USB connection. This card reader does the trick in less than 1 minute with a full card and no worries about running out of power. It's a 6-pin firewire connector, and needs to draw power from your firewire port, so be sure to hook it up directly to your computer or to a *powered* hub. Highly recommended for $40. It was a no brainer for me, and I have gotten my money's worth many times over.
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Summary: No problems with my Macs
Review: I've had this reader since May, 2003 and haven't had any issues. It works flawlessly with my G4 iMac and G3 iBook. I have a Minolta 7Hi and a 512MB CFII card. When the card would be nearly full, my Minolta's batteries would be depleted before the pictures would be downloaded to the computer (about 20 minutes!!) through the camera's USB connection. This card reader does the trick in less than 1 minute with a full card and no worries about running out of power. It's a 6-pin firewire connector, and needs to draw power from your firewire port, so be sure to hook it up directly to your computer or to a *powered* hub. Highly recommended for $40. It was a no brainer for me, and I have gotten my money's worth many times over.
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Summary: As good as it gets!
Review: I've used standard USB readers before which is like watching grass grow when transfering large files. The Lexar Firewire reader is lightning fast by comparison. Get yourself a fast card like a 12x or faster and you'll never go back to a USB reader again. I'm glad I bought it, you will be too.
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Summary: Unreliable
Review: It worked some of the time, but would frequently cause my Windows 2000 system to blue-screen (crash), even when I wasn't using the reader. The minimal installation and operating instructions were self contradictory. Overall, the extra speed wasn't worth the aggravation, so I returned it.
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Summary: FAST.
Review: Its firewire and its fast. i think that should summarize the whole product. :) the people who are not familar with FireWire standard, the transfer rate is upto 400Mbps which is way faster than USB1.x, and also in some cases, its faster than USB2.0 (which support upto 480Mbps) the reason depends on file size and chunks of data, FireWire is definitely better than USB (1.x and 2.0). Only one word of caution, the reader comes with 6-pin cable, this means it depends on the power of your computer, if you dont have the 6-pin port (e.g. in laptops) you wont be able to use it, the 4 to 6 cable wont work as power pins are missing in them. I am using it for my Kingston CF/512 MB card and it works great.
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Summary: Works fine - never had a problem in over a year
Review: Like I said, I have never had any problem whatsoever with the reader. I took it out the box, plugged it into the firewire socket - and THAT WAS IT - it worked immediately and every time since.
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Summary: Good at first but then died
Review: This product worked fine for about a year and then died. It seems as this is a common problem. Be careful.
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Summary: Good at first but then died
Review: This product worked fine for about a year and then died. It seems as this is a common problem. Be careful.
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Summary: Fast reader and easy to use
Review: This reader was literally plug and play and I had no problems setting it up. It's much faster than a USB version I had tried before (I'm transferring 5MP files) and leaves my camera battery free for taking pictures instead of transferring them. All around, if speed is important to you then you'll be happy with this purchase. Otherwise, you can probably get away with a USB reader.
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Summary: Works great
Review: Very speedy and reliable. Works with Mac OS X 10.1.1 with both Image Capture, and the Finder.
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