I'm surprised it's missing another point of fast cards: power saving. Even though different cards use different amounts of power for read/write operations they're all in the same ballpark because they need to respect the SD specification. As with all flash memory it usually consumes far more power when reading and writing than idling (particularly erasing/writing). So if the camera spends more time flushing the buffer because the card is slower, guess what? The camera is spending more juice in an unusable state. I consider the memory card price to be part of the overall camera package, like the carrying case. For me going with the cheap option is a bad idea, specially when you start looking at the pictures and have a couple of corrupted shots. Like a cheap carrying case that starts breaking down after some time of use.

That would be double standards. For instance, it seems ok to many people that Check Point Software was founded by an ex Unit 8200 member, right? Seems like it's a "they're not our kind of friends" thing and political leverage heading into elections soon.