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    UWB slot, any use?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by crowbar, Apr 30, 2009.

  1. crowbar

    crowbar Notebook Geek

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    I know the UWB port can be used for the 'wireless USB card' if you can find one, but in the absence of that can it be used for anything else?

    I've read about a flash memory card which I'm not that fussed on, unless it would speed up video editing or photoshop use at all?

    Any suggestions?
     
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  2. paper_wastage

    paper_wastage Beat this 7x7x7 Cube

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    i think the radio is connected to a PCI express mini card, which can be used for WWAN/WiFi/ReadyBoost, maybe RAM/SSD if it fits and the connections work
     
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    crowbar Notebook Geek

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    I've already used the WLAN and WWAN ports with the appropriate cards. I presume then that any PCI express mini card will work in the UWB slot then. Not sure what else I need though :D
     
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    joeytav Notebook Geek

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    I've got 4Gb of Intel Turbo Memory in mine - its faster memory than the hard drive you can you to cache files... in all fairness, its really heavily tailored towards certain tasks, and you don't really notice much difference :\
     
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  5. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    In theory, yes, you should be able to use any mini-PCIe card (assuming this is a proper mini-PCIe slot), but a lot of cards other than connectivity devices seem to be crapshots. I'd say there's nothing really worthwhile to put in there just for kicks, though, unless you need something like an internal mobile broadband card or something on those lines.
     
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    crowbar Notebook Geek

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    I was trying to find a source for the dedicated GPS card, but it appears that the only ones available at the moment are OEM supply only.

    There's also a TV and radio tuner card, but it uses the internal areal lead that the UWB card would have used, so I am not convinced that it would pick up many channels to be honest, if any.
     
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