Comments on: ExpressCard Gadgets for MacBook Pro

By: tom

tom — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:57:33 +0000

yeah of course, In Aus you can buy them through Telstra, there just a rebranded Sierra Wireless 881E

http://www.sierrawireless.com/product/AC880E_AC881E.aspx

By: PB

PB — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:37:04 +0000

Would it be possible to use one of these:

http://www.delkin.com/products/adapters/expresscard34/
(ExpressCard 34 CF Adapter)

and boot from a CF card?

By: CST

CST — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:40:16 +0000

I’ve been running around with a Griffin ExpressReader in my slot for about 3 years now – it does your standard MMC/SD/etc, but most importantly to me, it sits flush with the side of the notebook when inserted – don’t want a dongle sticking out the side.

http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/expressreader

By: Alex Moyler

Alex Moyler — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:10:00 +0000

I was wondering what I could do with that thing, thanks.

By: JonECat

JonECat — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:08:01 +0000

That seems horrible to not alllow express card drive to be bootable, there goes my idea of have a sweet boot drive!

By: BillyGuy

BillyGuy — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:00:00 +0000

Alas, Express Card is not bootable. So SSD is useless imo.

Otherwise one very usefull usage is the e-Sata. You cannot boot from the drive but it makes a very fast media drive for HD video or Professional Audio.
For me this is the main interest for Express card, and costs around 50 dolls or less.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:35:21 +0000

I’m using mine for an eSATA connection to a 4 disk eSATA port multiplying enclosure. Can’t go wrong with 90+MB/sec transfer speeds.

By: Josiah

Josiah — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:19:56 +0000

There is a ‘mini’ linux-based computer-on-a-expresscard product coming out soon from Yoggie that I have my eye on. It reroutes the network connections of your Mac through it and has anti-virus/spyware, firewall, etc. Pretty cool concept, really.

I’d be interested in a review of it if you get an advance copy (and no, I don’t work for Yoggie…).

http://www.yoggie.com/node/361

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:49:18 +0000

Where are the 3G or Edge cards? Do they exist?

By: Gregory

Gregory — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:55:07 +0000

Sadly Transcend’s SSD ExpressCard seems to have very low perfomance : “Read up to 18MB/s, Write up to 8MB/s (8GB~32GB)”. Too bad.. It would have been a wonderful tool for high demanding MacBook Pro users !

seen on http://www.transcendusa.com/Products/ModDetail.asp?ModNo=162&SpNo=3