Originally Posted by gail-r

I would advise you to get the USB if possible because the cards are quickly becoming out-dated. Most of the design companies stopped producing design cards a couple of years ago. Another thing I just learn resently is that the cards for your card readers do have a live span (some live longer than others, or so I'm told) and they are expensive to replace. USB sticks are getting cheaper and larger capacity every year. My Ellgante will only read up to 2 gigs but it is my understanding that the new machines will read bigger sticks. The other thing to remember is that if you have a machine with a USB port, most of those machines can be hooked directly to your computer. We had the question a while back about computer viruses possibly infecting our sewing machines, one of the BL techs said it would not happen but the computer tech said anything that has a motherboard can get infected. Maybe some of our other board buddies can weigh in on this question?