With the MacBook Pro, Apple discarded the old PC Card slot in favor of ExpressCard/34, a more compact expansion slot that offers greater transfer speeds and an increasing array of uses. The ...

Apple may have dumped ExpressCard from their new MacBook Pro models, but PCMCIA - the organization behind the expansion card standard – are striding ahead with the official release of ExpressCard ...

Notebooks tend not to get upgrades as often as desktops. For the most part our desktops are easy to work on and swapping out a processor, memory or HDD can be done in just a few minutes. It is ...

IRVINE, CA - August 25, 2011 - Sonnet Technologies today announced the Echo™ ExpressCard®/34 Thunderbolt™ Adapter, which enables the use of many Sonnet ExpressCard/34 adapters with computers equipped ...

SuperSpeed USB devices may have started to trickle onto the market, but it will still be a while before their use becomes widespread. That's simply because most people won't have the USB 3.0 ports ...

October 24, 2008 ExpressCard brings high-bandwidth (2.5Gbps) PCI Express connectivity to laptops, and allows you to connect a range of audio interfaces, hard drives, wireless broadband modems, and (if ...

While I appreciate that the Macs of today are leaps and bounds faster than their predecessors, that doesn’t mean I’m always happy with the speed of my machines. Consider my MacBook Pro, an early 2008 ...

Latest in the long line-up of available flash devices is Lexar’s ExpressCard SSD (Solid State Disk). While it’s basically just another flash drive, the difference here is that it talks to your ...

Back in the dim, dark days of 2005 or so, laptop users with external peripherals typically attached them to their notebooks via an interface called CardBus. CardBus had debuted in 1995, relied on the ...

A significant step to broaden the use of PC Cards in desktop computers was taken today by the PCMCIA industry standards group. The PCMCIA group — a nonprofit trade association founded in 1989 to ...

USB 3 is showing up in premium notebooks and PCs but plenty of new PCs don't come with it yet - and if you're happy with your current laptop you wouldn't upgrade just for a faster device connection.

Just what we need, another card format. With new and smaller flash card formats seeming to pop up almost daily, it seemed inevitable that the venerable PC Card would get a revamp. After all, the ...