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    Latitude E6400 customization question ?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by bluebarca, Oct 22, 2008.

  1. bluebarca

    bluebarca Notebook Enthusiast

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    hey everybody
    i was customizing the Dell E6400 laptop and i came across something that i didnt understand to choose which is better. can anybody help by telling me what is the difference and which is better to choose.both have the same price.


    NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M With Express Card


    NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M With PC-Card
     
    bluebarca, Oct 22, 2008
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  2. booboo12

    booboo12 Notebook Prophet

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    The graphics cards are the same. The Express Card and PC Card slots allow you to add peripherals to your notebook that slide into the slot. Remotes, mobile broadband cards, and Firewire cards are some of the things that you can use with the slots. Express Card has replaced PC Card slots as the dominant format, but as Express Card isn't backwards compatable with PC Card, Dell (and others) continue to give a choice as there are still plenty of PC Card peripherals out there.

    For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Express_card and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_card

    Ricky :)
     
    booboo12, Oct 22, 2008
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    Jaycee8980 Notebook Deity

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    Exactly!
    Basically, ExpressCard Slots and PCMIA Slots offer better latency then USB/Firewire.

    As booboo stated, there are many uses for the slots including firewire cards, broadband cards etc.

    ExpressCard is the newer format BUT it seems it is easier to find some peripherals in the older PCMIA format.
     
    Jaycee8980, Oct 22, 2008
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    mobile verizon cards slide right into that baby.
     
    jjgoo, Oct 22, 2008
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    Expresscard is newer and PC-Card is slowly becoming less common.

    If you don't know what it is, then my advice would be to just get Expresscard, since it is newer and if you need to use it in a year or two it will be the current format.

    Greg
     
    SpeedyMods, Oct 22, 2008
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