for one, With much experience using them for computer graphics years ago, they corrupt real easy, then you loose your data. Also floppies are kinda slow, and they only hold 1.44 megabytes. I have heard though that those mavicas are really good. If I get a flash media camera I will proablly get a 64 megabyte card, and one of those things that hooks up to your computer that accepts the cards so you can just access the images as though they were on a floppy or hd.