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    toshiba A500/02J - does it comes with mini pcie?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by homer_simpson, Mar 11, 2010.

  1. homer_simpson

    homer_simpson Newbie

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    Hello everybody,

    I just bought a toshiba A500/02J. the manual says it has expresscard34 slot but no mention of mini pcie.

    does anyone knows if it has got a mini pcie?
    Thanks a lot!

    homer simpson
     
    homer_simpson, Mar 11, 2010
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  2. Trottel

    Trottel Notebook Virtuoso

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    It must have one for the wireless. As far as extra free slots like some laptops do, idk but I doubt it on a budget laptop.
     
    Trottel, Mar 11, 2010
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    homer_simpson Newbie

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    thanks trottel for the reply.

    actually, it has got wireless (realtek 8192se) on it. it's just that its peformance under linux is crap. so i need to put my own intel wlan.

    it's pretty decent actually. an i5-430 cpu, 4g ram and yeah gt330m.

    does anybody knows if it has got any extra slots (hopefully mini-pcie)?

    thanks
    homer simpson
     
    homer_simpson, Mar 11, 2010
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  4. sean473

    sean473 Notebook Prophet

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    it should have 2 m-pcie slots at least... 1 will have the wireless card... anyways , if u want to put an intel card , u can just swap it with the realtek one...
     
    sean473, Mar 12, 2010
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  5. Trottel

    Trottel Notebook Virtuoso

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    Why should it have 2?
     
    Trottel, Mar 12, 2010
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  6. H.A.L. 9000

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    Exactly. My Sony machine isn't exactly a budget machine, and I only have one Half-Mini PCI-e slot. Most ultraportables have two... one for WiFi and one for WWAN, and most business notebooks have two also. But as for most consumer notebooks.. nope.
     
    H.A.L. 9000, Mar 12, 2010
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  7. sean473

    sean473 Notebook Prophet

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    well i don't know.. i do know my notebook has 2 slots... 1 which holds wireless card and 1 spare... i'm actually suprised that ur notebook have 1 slot as a big size one should have 2 at least and ur netbooks will have 1.
     
    sean473, Mar 13, 2010
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    Same here. I have a spare slot as well.
     
    Amnesiac, Mar 13, 2010
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