pcmcia card help!

i tried to put in the echo indigo card into my w3j but it wouldnt go in all the way, is there an adaptor or something where i can make use of the card or am i doomed

 

Your doomed because your laptop doesnt even have a PCMCIA slot, its newer type of card slot, called Express slot. There is no adapter available. The only thing you can do is either return it or buy a USB PCMCIA Reader.

JC

 

The W3J (as well as almost all Core Duo laptops) only has an Express Card slot, not a PCMCIA card slot.

I hate to say it, but I cannot find a PCMCIA to Express Card adapter, but they may hit the market a bit later on. There a millions of us that have expensive PCMCIA cards that won't work in Express Card slots and need an adapter.

 

There is a USB adapter pcmcia to usb. But its expensive.

 

The PCMCIA to USB adapter may well not work with an Echo Indigo card. If you get one to try, be sure you can return it for refund if it doesn't work.

 

i think they are around 300 bucks thoughh so it may be a turn of to alot of people. hey paladin hope you arent bitter about our conversation before. I wasnt trying to really argue. Just dicuss really.

 

No worries...and a good discussion it was

Oh, and congratulations on hitting 1600!

 

Do i get a special geek award for hitting 1600? Like a free laptop from powernotebooks.com i hear they have great service

 

We have a very special plaque here for you...it says something like "1600 and BEYOND!"

Kidding aside, thanks for the nice compliment

 

ah, thx a lot for the replies, i guess we will have to wait for the pcmcia to expresscard adapter if it ever comes out

 

Are there even a lot of things made for the PC express cards? I found only one on neweggs site.

 

There are very few things out. The standard hasnt been around to long.

 

actually, if you read the expresscard.org website the standard has been around since like 2004 - and even though there are effectively NO cards (a couple dozen total - none for IMO "mainstream" type PC Card uses) they have somehow convinced manufacturers to switch to what is a non existant standard

someday, when cards are availabale it will be a good thing - but at present there is little likelihood that we'll see any significant availability of expresscard product till year end - which will make it most of a year that these new notebooks are seriously crippled

and as this thread shows the manufacturers are not getting the word out to buyers and people are getting burned

some manufacturs have - wisely - either stuck with old PCMCIA ort added both - SOny for example has both - others, like ASUS, Dell, MacBook and more ONLY offer expresscard - which makes their product worthless for the many folks who rely on PCMCIA for things like broadband wireless access ....

 

The standard hasnt been used on actual laptop that long is what i meant. i think compaq was one of the companys the started using it early on and that was like 1 year ago. But since the industry is forcing us to move to expresscard within a year we are going to see a large amount of cards i think.

 

acually it has I think been on some laptops for quite a while already?

http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/31/expresscard-finally-shows-up/

heres one example - and I think some notebooks have had the expresscard since late last year??

its really frustrating when a standards organization doesn't do their job - and the manufacturers don't either

the expresscard group claims it isn't their fault there are no cards even though its 2 years since teh std was annonced - that they cannot force people to build them

but the can and should IMO opinion strongly discourage manufacturers from adopting new standards when there are no products that support them in any reassonable future time frame

 

thats what i said about 1 year. I know the first time i saw it was in the compaq r4000. im sure there might have been someone else ealier but i have yet to see another laptop from that time that had it.

They are going to have to move their ass now since everyone is moving completely away from pcmcia in their new lineups

 

Anyone here remember how long it took for USB peripherals to become available after the standard was defined? Card makers won't start producing EC parts until there's an installed base, and until recently notebook manufacturers were loath to introduce it since there were no cards. Someone has to make the first move, or else ExpressCard will remain a whitepaper and nothing more. I know it's frustrating, but ExpressCard is the way all notebook manufactuers are going, for bandwidth and power consumption reasons.

I believe that EVDO ExpressCards for wireless broadband are scheduled for release in the very near future.

 

I believe we may have a pcmcia express card adapterhttp://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&satitle=pcmcia+express+adapter

 

That is just an adapter for firewire. Not adapter for PCMCIA.

JC

 

Ok guys its now December 2006.. any word on PCMCIA to Express Card Adaptors as yet?

 

Duel-Systems is presenting one at the Las Vegas Electronic show.Hopefully they will start building them for consumers soon.