“You lose” design—SanDisk card readers

Keyboard shortcuts are always handy, and often hard to remember if used infrequently. Here’s a handy list of useful ones: http://www.danrodney.com/mac/index.html.

SanDisk’s MultiMate multi-card reader regularly hangs my PowerMac G5 Quad so that it requires rebooting to clear up any programs that might have tried to access the disk (though the OS still is running fine in general). This happens when the card is removed without first unmounting it from the desktop, and if it is physically removed too quickly after unmounting. This was never a problem with my Lexar reader, though it is a FireWire-based unit.

SanDisk MultiMate	SanDisk MiniMate

The SanDisk MiniMate SDHC card reader (which ships with their 4GB SDHC card), is so wide (35mm) that it cannot fit side-by-side in the USB ports on an Apple LCD monitor, forcing me to duck under my desk to plug it into the front of my PowerMac Quad. Nor can it be plugged into the keyboard, because the keyboard cannot supply sufficient power. The MultiMate reader won’t read SDHC cards, so using the MiniMate is mandatory.

Perhaps SanDisk could think a little harder about these issues.