Comments on: 'Netbook' SDHC card: Clever branding or rip-off?

A little rebranding and a high price tag turns SDHC cards into Netbook memory.

[project10]

You're missing nothing, it's a marketing trick to fool a (quite high) percentage of unsuspecting buyers when looking up and down a list of meaningless memory cards, they'll see 'netbook' and buy it for no other reason, or have some oik of a sales assistant upsell extra overpriced storage for the weedy netbook they just bought.

[NervClaX]

"The site also says you're able to install and run software directly from the cards"

It's just flash memory, right? I run a portable version of Firefox off my USB stick so I don't see why this should be any different.

[Shaymojack]

It's sandisk. In early '07 they were selling $100 1GB SD cards branded for the Wii. No joke.

[fuzbears]

Well there used to be cassette tapes marked "Digital" for copying from CD's.. They also had a premium attached to them, even though they were of marginal quality and you could get "Metal" tapes for same price.. But it was for people who did not really understand the technology..

[cdxskier6]

Yeah, same thing as a regular CD-R vs. a "Music" CD-R. Total BS

[imaradiostar]

there WAS a difference- Music CD-R's were designed to be used with consumer strandalone audio CD recorders. There was a licensing charge built in to offset the potential copying of music cd's. They could be used as conventional CD-R's for computer use but you couldn't use conventional CD-R's in the standalone recorders.