Customer Reviews

Presenter To Go Secure Digital Card for Use In Palm Pdas

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Allows you to hook your Palm directly to a VGA projector to make presentations right out of your pocket. Full resolution, with full resolution photos and graphics.

You do lose sound/animations (But really, these are bells and whistles you can do without.)

If you are a handheld user and do speeches, you need this.

This product is excellent - it frees me from my laptop, works as advertised, and is truly remarkably easy to use. Be aware, however, that you lose animation and effects, and cannot incorporate video or mpg objects in powerpoint. The remote is a bit finicky. I use it with a Tungsten T, and there is no time lag between slides with it.

This is truly an amazing product. Although it required a software patch to work with my monitor, it was very easy. You can see you powerpoint presentation on your palm, edit it, and if you draw on it while giving your presentation, it draws on the projected image (much better than a laser pointer). It even comes with a remote control in case you have to stand a distance from the projector/palm combo.

Therein lies my chief complaint. With the addition of bluetooth to palm and sony models, there should be a blue tooth version so you can hold your palm, see the presentation on your screen and mark it as mentioned while at a comfortable distance from the projector. Add bluetooth and this product gets 5 stars.

I purchased one of these in January for use in classroom presentations. The image quality is adequate for text, but graphics tend to be a good deal worse than they are with a lap top.

The big problem for me, however, is the same as for other Mac users. If you upgrade to Panther (system 10.3) you start having problems. I'm still able to convert Keynote and PowerPoint presentations into the format that the system uses -- but it's hit and miss.

Customer support on this issue was clueless. Mac users should beware.

I usually download a product manual before buying a product.

Margi claims in the Users's Guide that the desktop software works on OSX 10.1 "and greater" (the release notes in the driver say "10.2 and greater"). But it does not work on OSX 10.3 - the software either crashes or renders incorrectly. Every time I ask tech support when 10.3 drivers are coming out, they say "check the web site in a few weeks."

Hello Margi - OSX 10.3 has been out for almost 6 months now - how hard can it be to release an update?

My rating will likely be a lot higher once they REALLY support Macs.

I have a Palm Zire 71. The connector to the palm seems like very hard to stay on. I have not tried on a real projector yet but I can't get it to display on my monitor.

Keep in mind that the way this works is that it convert your powerpoint files into little images. You transfer it to your palm and then display it. So you won't see powerpoint animations. So even if it works it will only give you limited ability. (What do you expect from a little Palm?)