It is half the picture Bill and provides actual numbers, not perception.  Last time I looked
there were no utilities in digital cameras to benchmark transfer rates.

And when you get down to it, the table at
http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=6007-6133 was performed with the
following...  *"The reader was a Lexar FireWire CompactFlash, model RW019; the computer a
Power Mac G5/Dual 2.0GHz with 1.5GB RAM running OS X 10.3.7."*  So any tests I may do "for
myself" are in line with other's tests.

Lastly who knows how the 350D will operate since it came out relatively just after the
Extreme III cards wer put out on the market and Canon uses SanDisk OEM CF cards.

So please... Keep your mind open.  ;-)

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

 Boxen \Box"en\ (b[o^]ks"'n), a.
    Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box
    ({Buxus}). [R.]
 
          The faded hue of sapless boxen leaves.   --Dryden.

From Jargon File (4.3.0, 30 APR 2001) [jargon]:

 boxen /bok'sn/ pl.n. [very common; by analogy with {VAXen}] Fanciful
    plural of {box} often encountered in the phrase `Unix boxen', used to
    describe commodity {{Unix}} hardware. The connotation is that any two
    Unix boxen are interchangeable.

    [ ... ]

    It is a common plural of "box" in the computer world -- and also
among players of button accordions.  You won't find it in most
dictionarys, but you will find it in _The New Hacker's Dictionary_,
published by MIT Press.

    I do not wish to have even a single VAX, thank you.  I am
currently a *retired* unix admin -- at least nobody is paying me to play
with these now. :-)

    Hmm ... which order to use?  O.K.  In *service* at the moment:  

3 ea    Sun Ultra-2 -- various CPU clock speeds 200 MHZ through 400 MHz
    (actually, one of the three is down awaiting new disks for a
    fresh install of a newer version of Solaris.)

1 ea    Sun Ultra-1/140 -- running OpenBSD, and serving as a firewall.

3 ea    Sun SS-5 -- two 170 MHz, and one 110 MHz -- One running OpenBSD

1 ea    Sun SS-20

2 ea    Sun SS-10 -- one with two double ROSS CPU cards.

1 ea    SUN LX still in service -- domain name server

1 ea    Tadpole (Sun SPARC laptop)  Booted only when needed.

1 ea    Ancient IBM Thinkpad 760XD alternately running OpenBSD or
    Windows in the field, depending on my needs.  Again, booted only
    when needed.

1 ea    Shuttle SS51G Intel box running OpenBSD

1 ea    Misc pentium running a modified Linux to control a Bridgeport
    CNC milling machine.

1 ea    Tower style 2.9 GHz Pentium 4, running Windows when I can't
    avoid it, and scheduled for OpenBSD when I find unix equivalents
    for the last of the programs.  So -- yes, it is *not* a unix box
    at the moment.

    All Sun boxen may be presumed to be running some version of
Solaris or SunOs unless otherwise stated.

    Aside from those, there are the *retired* machines, unix unless
otherwise stated:

1 ea)    Altair 680b -- my first home machine.  Obviously not unix, nor
    really equipped with *any* OS.

1 ea)    SWTP 6800 -- much modified.  Not unix

1 ea)    SWTP 6809 -- running OS-9 when last run.  A sort of unix-like
    OS which fit in under 64K of RAM.

1 ea)    Cosmos CMS/UNX -- a 68000 based unix machine -- my first unix
    box.  Deadly slow. :-)

3 ea)    Sun 2/140 machines -- Motorola 68010 CPU.

1 ea)    Sun 3/140 machine -- Motorola 68020 CPU

2 ea)    Sun 3/160 and 3/180 machines (same except that the /180 is
    rackmount.

2 ea)    Tektronix 6130 (NS 32016 CPU, BSD 4.2 variant.)

1 ea)    Calma (IIRC) double-headed machine with built-in digitizing tablet
    for drafting, etc, klugy version of Sys5 unix. CPU is the
    Fairchild clipper.

? ea)    Some spare SS-10 and SS-20 boxen not currently installed.

    And there may be a few machines which I have forgotten.

    Are you satisfied with your off-topic question?

    We should probably drop this from this newsgroup.
        DoN.