16 GB SD card (okay, SDHC really)

Richard A. Smith richard at laptop.org
Mon Dec 24 09:56:18 EST 2007


Doug Jones wrote:
> I stuck a 16GB SD card into my XO.
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> It works.
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> I went to Project Gutenberg and downloaded a PDF of 'Pride and 
> Prejudice'.  Been wanting to re-read that for a while.
> 
> Opened up the Journal, dragged that entry onto the SD card icon at the 
> bottom.
> 
> Then opened a terminal and cd'ed into /media, found the mounted SD card 
> volume, looked inside, found the PDF file.
> 
> df -h told me how much space was left on the card.  It appears I only 
> have room for 20,000 more books.
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> 
> No doubt the 64GB cards will be out in 1.5 years.


Dude, thats awesome. That is EXACTLY the mentality OLPC wants to see. 
Please spread the word.

-- 
Richard Smith  <richard at laptop.org>
One Laptop Per Child


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