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Topic: Laptop express card help needed
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Stephen Furley
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From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England
Registered: May 2002
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posted 02-25-2007 11:24 AM
quote: Mike Heenan My new HP laptop has an express card 54 slot in it, however my brother gave me an a PCI card to use for wireless at my place but obviously it doesn't fit in there.
Mike, did you mean a PCI card, or a PC Card?
Quite a few laptops seem to be getting Express card slots now, recent Dell ones we've bought have them, for example. We also have a few Research Machines laptops, which have both PC Card and Ecxpress Card slots, but this seems to be quite rare. The production of the Express Cards themselves seems to be lagging somewhat behind the machines with the slots to take them. We tried to get an O2 mobile card in Express Card for one of our senior management for example, but they were only available in PC Card format.
Apple have done something not very sensible; they have put an Express Card slot on he Macbook Pro, but it's an Express Card 34 type one, rather than a 54, so most of the cards which are available won't fit it. Apple seem to have shot themselves in the foot again.
The other option if you can't find a card to fit this laptop is to use an external USB wireless adapter; not as neat, but they do work.
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Stephen Furley
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posted 02-26-2007 04:25 AM
The '34' and '54' are the two different sizes of these cards, the number indicating the width, in mm. The 54 is about the same size as a PCMCIA card, the 34 is the same length, but obviously narrower. both use the same connector, which covers the full width of a 34 card, but a 54 has a section cut out of one corner, forming a sort of 'L' shape, with the connector being mounted on the narrower section at the end. There are proposals for a smaller, but electrically compatible card, much as Compact Flash was to PCMCIA, but I don't think any standards have been released yet.
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