My new PicturePad is excruciatingly slow at downloading from a CF.
I used the following equipment:
-- Canon D60
-- SimpleTech 512MB Type II CF
-- Delkin 20GB PicturePad.
I took the CF card with about 50MB worth of pictures, plugged it into the PicturePad and timed the download.
The download rate worked out to 2 to 2.5 MB per minute (yes, per minute). There might be a slight difference depending upon whether the files were RAW (6 MB), Large JPEG/Fine (2.3MB), or Small JPEG/Fine (0.7 MB, but all were in that range. That means it would take 200 to 250 minutes to copy a 512MB CF to the PicturePad.