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Summary: Nice & Easy
Review: If you're tired of all the software that comes with your camera, then this is just the product you want. It hooks up like a drive and is so easy to use. Just push the compact flash card in, and all your pictures are easily viewable like a drive/floppy drive.
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Summary: It works on my Mac through a USB hub
Review: In an earlier review I rated it "4" because I thought that I had to connect directly to a USB port rather than through a hub, but it works fine through my Macally USB hub. I love it and rate it 5 out of 5!
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Summary: It works on my Mac through a USB hub
Review: In an earlier review I rated it "4" because I thought that I had to connect directly to a USB port rather than through a hub, but it works fine through my Macally USB hub. I love it and rate it 5 out of 5!
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Summary: Works well with my Mac Cube
Review: It certainly downloads the images quickly. I do wish that I could run it through my USB hub instead of having to connect it directly to my Cube. Nice product for the price, though.
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Summary: Works well with my Mac Cube
Review: It certainly downloads the images quickly. I do wish that I could run it through my USB hub instead of having to connect it directly to my Cube. Nice product for the price, though.
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Summary: Well worth it
Review: It's compact, it's inexpensive and it works just great with my iMac (running OS 9.1). What's not to like? Well, one thing really: there's nothing to physically prevent one from removing a Compact Flash card from the reader at the "wrong time." On a Macintosh, for example, you must be careful to drag the CF card's icon to the Trash or "Eject" it before manually removing the card. (I assume a similar procedure is necessary in Windows.) Forget to do so and you could trash the card, so this device is NOT for the absent minded and probably not a good choice for computer novices. Aside from that though, I highly recommend the Imagemate.
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Summary: User Beware!
Review: Singularly, the worse and most unreliable computer product I've ever experienced! All I can say is that I followed installation directions for the SanDisk Compactflash Reader, and what happened next was a computer nightmare -- my computer went into an uncontrollable cycle of loading Windows 98 then restarting. What I had to do was reload Windows and all my programs -- an eight hour ordeal.
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Summary: You get what you pay for
Review: The old adage of you get what you pay for holds true with the SanDisk Imagemate. I bought it only because of it's low, low price and the fact that I had a $25.00 gift certificate. I read everyone else's review and found it to be just as described by the others. The SanDisk web page is not at all useful. With as many systems being shipped today with Windows ME installed, you'd think there would be a section covering ME problems. Nope, not a word about this thing working with ME. The software drivers that ship with this unit are of course outdated, so after trying to get the Imagemate to run and being unable to find it on my USB system, I downloaded the new drivers and found the patch for the adaptec software conflict. I installed it again per the instructions after of course removing it from my system and it fired right up. Once again, getting what you pay for, the construction of the imagemate is kind of cheap. The compact flash does not gently slide into the media slot, instead you have to kind of push, jiggle and hope that it goes in properly. It seems to be working properly, I'm not getting any conflicts or inablity to read my CF. I only have 32mb cards so I can't testify how it will work with higher capacity or with a SM adapter. All in all not a bad deal for less than $25.00, just a bit of install hassle.
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Summary: Conflicts, conflicts, conflicts
Review: The product worked fine at first, but add some new software and BOING! After adding more software, my computer doesn't even recognize that the card reader is there! Contacted the manufacturer and they tried by sending me more software and a detailed list of instructions, but after several unsuccessful tries, I wrote the manufacturer again and their customer service person wasn't there either! Now it sits on the shelf collecting dust until I can find someone who can sort out the conflict. Everything else works. As for a reader, when it worked, it deserved a 5 star rating. But with its tendency for a conflicts problem, it was money wasted. If you buy one, be sure you have a computer repair person nearby who can sort out these problems.
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Summary: This is a good product!
Review: The SanDisk card reader is a good product for any Mac user with a USB connection. At first, I had experience some problems with the reader (I had deleted images from the card, but it was not freeing up memory), but after I downloaded and installed the latest drivers from SanDisk, all my problems went away. The ease of use of this product was quite simply astounding. When you place a card in the reader, it will appear on your desktop (assuming you use a Mac) as any floppy disc or CD would. From there, you can copy the files to your hard drive by just dragging and dropping them into any folder on your computer. When you've done that, just drag the files from the card to the trash and empty it. Voila! You have just cleared the space off the card! It really is simplicity in motion. I highly recommend this easy to use product.
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