SanDisk 6-in-1 PC Card Adapter

Pros: inexpensive, more options than most built-in readers, completely disappears in the laptop, easy to use

Cons: no Compact Flash capability

The Bottom Line: An inexpensive alternative to laptops with built-in readers, which often provide fewer choices in supported media formats.

Review: I recently bought a new laptop, which I am very happy with, but it didn't come with e built in memory card reader (among other things). At first I didn't really care, because you can always connect your camera directly to the computer with a USB cable, ...

Pros: convenient to have the reader always available

Cons: feels slow. doesn't work fully with 2GB SD cards

Review: I've had this 6-in-1 PC Card Adapter for quite some time and used it to read and write various capacities of SD cards from 256MB to 1GB on my PowerBook G4. I felt it transferred files rather slowly but put up with it for the convenience of having an ...