MBP and Creative

i saw on the home page of nbr.com about a new creative audigy sound card that fits into the expresscard slot in laptops. Right now I have the audigy 2 zs in my other laptop, it uses the pcmcia slot and i have logitech z5500s connected to it.

im pretty sure mbp's have the expresscard slots, and id like to get the new creative card so that i can hook up the z5500s to my mbp, im just wondering about software issues.

will the new creative card work on mac os? vista?

 

It's an X-Fi, not an Audigy.

Ofcourse it will work. But probably you will know Creative's Drivers.

(I have an X-Fi Fatal1ty under Xp with the bare driver and ~0 problems.)

 

The X-Fi card requires an Expresscard 54 slot; MBP's only have Expresscard 34 slots which aren't big enough. Sorry, no dice. You could settle for an external X-Fi soundcard setup.

 

thanks alot

 

Grrr. Is it just me, or do others get fed up with express card. Why make a new standard and then immediately hobble adoption by having two versions of it.

My next question is, do the express card 3G modems fit in a 34 slot or do they also require a 54 slot?

 

I think the 3g cards are 34. This is the first card i've seen thats not 34.

Anyway, creative doesn't tend to make drivers for mac... not that their xp drivers are very good.
I have one of their recent USB audio cards, and it "works" in OS X, just no real functionality.

 

Creative X-Fi USB devices have less than full support on the Mac?

 

Creative doesn't support OS X at all. No drivers what so ever.

But... Creative is one of the worst companies around in regards to drivers. I'd be surprised (I haven't checked) if they have Vista support for any cards. I remember it took forever to get XP/2k support for their cards. And they had tons of problems with Athlon systems back in the day.

Creative is a ****e company, I wish they had a major competitor.