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Skriven 2008-10-06 23:11:00 av JAY EMRIE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av ALAN ZISMAN
Ärende: g-mode PCMCIA
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AZ> AZ>>>> Expresscards are easily removable without having to open up the
AZ> JE>>> laptop-- in
AZ> AZ>>>> many ways, they're a smaller, faster, more modern replacement for
AZ> JE>>> PCMCIA or
AZ> AZ>>>> Cardbus cards.

AZ> JE>>>  From the little I have read, Express Cards obsolete mot of the
AZ> JE> laptops
AZ> JE>>> extant. Am I correct?

AZ> AZ>> I'm not sure I quite understand your comment/question... Express Card
AZ> JE> slots are
AZ> AZ>> not backwards-compatible with Cardbus/PCMCIA, so to that extent, if
AZ> JE> you have a
AZ> AZ>> collection of the older cards (as I do), they're obsolete if you only
AZ> JE> have a
AZ> AZ>> newer laptop with an Express Card slot. Is that what you mean?

AZ> JE> My laptop, an IBM ThinkPad T60 - is it not obsolete with respect to the
AZ> JE> Express Card development?

AZ>Even if you can't plug an Express Card into it, it's only obsolete when it
AZ>can't do what you require of it...

See my reply to Jeff.

AZ>Is there some functionality that you want that's built into an Express Card
AZ>that isn't available in PCMCIA/CardBus format? If not, then your ThinkPad
isn't
AZ>obsolete.

Yes, by the "I gotta have the very newest" group it is obsolete - but
not to me.

AZ>There are lots of computer technologies that your Thinkpad doesn't support--
AZ>Apple's high-end desktop and laptops have Firewire-800 ports, for instance,
AZ>which are not available (as far as I'm aware) on ANY PC laptops.

Not on this one. Tis on my desktop however.

AZ>But I don't see anyone on the PC side crying out for this capability-- just
AZ>because it exists doesn't make everything else obsolete.

See my blurb to Jeff about my grandfather's "Jack Rabbit" Willys.

Jay
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