The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    M40 - Cardbus feature

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by Gabuser, Apr 29, 2005.

  1. Gabuser

    Gabuser Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    24
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I"ve read over this forum and found that the m40 supports a cardbus
    "1PC Card slot supports one Type II PC Cards; supports CardBus." Toshiba.ca even claims so.

    So my question is , what is CardBus ? How does it fit in , some people say there aren't any slots for cardbus? does that imply that cardbus will run out of a pc card slot?
     
    Gabuser, Apr 29, 2005
    #1
  2. Andrew Baxter

    Andrew Baxter -

    Reputations:
    4,365
    Messages:
    9,029
    Likes Received:
    55
    Trophy Points:
    216
    What it does have is a PCMCIA card slot (99.9999% of laptops have this), what it does not have is an ExpressCard slot (even though Toshiba marketing material claims it does). Only 0.00001% of laptops have an ExpressCard slot right now. In the future more and more will have the ExpressCard slot because it is the next generation of the PCMCIA slot basically.

    CardBus = PCMCIA, different term meaning the same thing.

    DigitalCameraReview.com | BargainPDA.com | TabletPCReviewSpot.com
     
    Last edited by a moderator: Feb 2, 2015
    Andrew Baxter, Apr 29, 2005
    #2
  3. Gabuser

    Gabuser Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    24
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    so it doesn't have this new cool feature ... is there anyway to like upgrade it so that in the future it does?
    i dunno much about notebooks lol , upgrading notebooks , bizzare idea lol
     
    Gabuser, Apr 30, 2005
    #3
  4. Venombite

    Venombite Notebook Virtuoso

    Reputations:
    126
    Messages:
    3,532
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    105
    Here's a link on the meaning of cardbus.

    http://www.pcmcia.org/papers/cardbus.htm

    Generally, it's just a 32Bit version of a standard PCMCIA PC Card (older versions were 16bit). Plus, it uses less power (3.3V vs 5V for older cards).

    The Type II PC card is a PCMCIA card with a specific thickness (5.5mm) which is generally most cards in the market (modem, nic, audio, wireless, etc...). Some manufacturers still have Type III slots, which is thicker (10.5mm) which will hold 1xType III, or 2xType II/Type I cards. Type I cards are older cards, mainly memory, that is 3.3mm thick, but I don't think they're available anymore.

    -Vb-
     
    Venombite, Apr 30, 2005
    #4