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cmonex - 2006-05-05 11:33 PM
well, here a CF wifi costs 40-50$
(mine was 35$ last year, would be worth 30$ now with all the currency rates changing
) and a pcmcia wifi costs 40$ or almost... so?
ok, these are the prices for used cards, cf wifis are 50-70$ new and 16 bit pcmcia wifis cant be really bought, and if yes they are 40-50$
so it's strangely unproportional in your country
It is.
If we consider new cards, a CF/SD
(cable or Wi-fi
) ethernet card costs on-line about € 100-150, as shown for example
here on eprice.it
(I hope this doesn't break any forum rule, it is just an example of an on-line shop well known for having fairly low prices, at least in Italy
).
A pcmcia
(cardbus of course
) Wi-Fi card costs about € 20-30
(
check here). Roughly the same for a pcmcia cable ethernet card.
I know that most of these cards don't work on our hpc's, it is just an example of what can be found easily and new.
Another example: the common Sandisk 128 MB CF Wireless Card sold today on eBay USA at less than $ 25 new, costs here in large electronics stores more than € 100.
Used stuff is a different story, you can find cards at very low prices
(and pay a lot of money in proportion for shipping & handling
) but I think comparisons are much more difficult in these cases due to price variability.
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btw the HP jornada 780 in your profile, is that a 680 or 720?
Wow, you are much more careful than me to these details! It is a 680, just a typing error
(corrected, now
).