Golden Shopping Journal

4Gb SD card started to show up in stores at Golden Shopping Center. Ironically, most of them were not high brand name products from Toshiba or Kingston, but instead from PQI and KIngmax. They were usually selling at $680, which I think it's reasonable but not a bargin. I will consider getting one if the price drop lower than HK$500. I also need to figure out if my DELL Axim x50v Pocket PC can accept a 4Gb SD Card.

The official NDS Lite with official 12 month warrray was selling at HK$1120. They were in white color and were selling pretty well based on what I saw. There are also gray market ones with 18 months warrenty (but may require longer repair time since they will ship your NDSLite back to Japan to fix) with several different colors, selling at HK$1180. PassMe 3 mini is selling at HK$140.

I knew I would eventually get a 2Gb SD card for the HK$275 price range. But I surprised myself by getting a Kingmax one instead of the trusted Toshiba or the Kingston. It's all because of the "high speed" claim on the package. At first I was not really having much hope on this thing, and later found out that it indeed provide higher speed compare with the Toshiba Card:

For 800Mb worth of data (various file sizes)

Kingmax 2Gb
* copy from PC to CArd - 6 minutes
* copy from CArd to PC - Less than 1 minute

Toshiba Blue SD 1Gb
* Copy from PC to card - 9 minutes
* copy from CArd to PC - 4 minutes

I will constantly torture it before the 7 days exchange policy is over.