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What is ExpressCard/34 good for on MBP?

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kraftzwerg

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Jul 8, 2005
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I am wondering:
Who uses the ExpressCard/34 on his/her MBP?
What do you use it with?
 
yeah I would love to hear what is this for as well ...
I've no idea what I can use it for ..

Thanks.
 
I am looking at getting a card reader but I cant find a good one. I have a feeling that Belkin do one but getting hold of it in the UK isnt easy. Alot of people use them for wireless internet with US service providers.
 
Apple Corps said:
External SATA I & II hard drives is an excellent use for the 34 mm ExpressCard slot.
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How does that work? Can you get external drives that already have a SATA connector? I always throught of SATA as internal only!
 
jlanuez said:
I just bought the Belkin CF card reader from B&H Photo.
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Does it only read CF? I have a Sony Camera with the Memory stick thing. My girlfriend has a CF camera and if would be great if both worked at the same time on it.
 
R.Youden said:
How does that work? Can you get external drives that already have a SATA connector? I always throught of SATA as internal only!
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SATA external drives / enclosures are available from many sources and provide hard drive performance WAY BEYOND any internal drive. I run SATA external drives on my Quad and will be purchasing the SeriTek Express Card for my MBP C2D shortly.

The way it works is simple: SATA drive goes into an external enclosure (coolgear.com) > eSATA cable goes from external hard drive to 34 mm ExpressCard SATA plugged into your MBP. You can also purchase ready to go units from places like g-technology.com or caldigit.com

They offer very high hard drive performance with RAID striping active.
 
Wow what is the cheapest eSata card? These look amazing and my external hard drives supports it, so I can erase winXP from my interna HD and just run it off external when needed (Full speed 7200 rpm for games!!).

Also there seem to be different versions, anyone know what the difference is?
 
This is something i kind of have a gripe with apple about. I think they switched to the new expresscard/34 design way to early. You cant hardly find any useful ones anywhere. :rolleyes:
 
I'm really with the first post on this.
I'm really a bit lost on how I can use
this. What I would love to do is get
uncompressed video into my Macbook Pro.
 
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