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

By: Rubin110

Rubin110 — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:44:05 +0000

FW800 is FW400 backwards compatible. Those who think that dropping the physical port means no FW400 devices can be connected to the new MBP without the addition of an ExpressCard obviously haven't done their research. Cables run for about $5. Or, you know, you could waste $50 and have a fashionable cancer of a lump sticking out the side of your machine.

By: JonECat

JonECat — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:34:41 +0000

Can you boot from the SSD in an express card slot?

By: Guido

Guido — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:20:52 +0000

[img]http://www.griffintechnology.com/images/assets/headers/0000/2032/esataexpresscard_2.jpg?1196275534[/img]

An Esata connection for 2 estata disks

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:18:28 +0000

This may be a n00b question, but can you boot from the SSD in the express card slot? I could see booting OS X on it and using the HD purely for storage.

By: Grant

Grant — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:08:43 +0000

http://www.addonics.com/products/host_controller/adexc34-2e.asp + http://www.addonics.com/products/enclosures/AE25RDESU.asp

My best use for my mostly unused express card slot