With Apple’s announcement of the MacBook Pro they also obsoleted a popular notebook technology – the PC Card slot (formerly PCMCIA).
ExpressCard/34 is a blazing fast replacement for the venerable PC Card slot found on many notebooks, including several generations of PowerBook. ExpressCard is a serial interface delivering between 480 Mbytes/sec and 2.5 Gbit/sec/direction of bi-directional throughput, depending on the interface (USB 2.0 or PCI Express) while a CardBus PC Card is a parallel interface capable of only 33-132 Mbytes/sec.
Read the rest of the story on my ZDNet Blog: The Apple Core.
With Apple’s announcement of the MacBook Pro they also obsoleted a popular notebook technology – the PC Card slot (formerly PCMCIA).
ExpressCard/34 is a blazing fast replacement for the venerable PC Card slot found on many notebooks, including several generations of PowerBook. ExpressCard is a serial interface delivering between 480 Mbytes/sec and 2.5 Gbit/sec/direction of bi-directional throughput, depending on the interface (USB 2.0 or PCI Express) while a CardBus PC Card is a parallel interface capable of only 33-132 Mbytes/sec.
Read the rest of the story on my ZDNet Blog: The Apple Core.
One reply on “The Apple Core: PC Card = Obsolete”
We all would need ExpressCard/54 slots. CompactFlash or (security) SmartCards do not fit into 34 millimeter. There will be much more which does not fit, like UMTS, EVDO etc. Even today these cards have problems with a normal PC Card slot. Because there are much more ExpressCard/54 slots out there