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Ok I consider myself a tech savvy guy, but at the same time I have no clue what this is. The side of my laptop has button that you push that pops out a piece of plastic. What goes in that slot?
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Portimão portugal. What kind of laptop? Make and model would help us answer this question.
Dell inspiron e1505/6400.
But I've seen this on a lot of laptops.
@extol, what goes in a pc card slot?
PC Cards are made for wireless cards, both over cellular networks and 802.11 networks, FireWire and USB 2.0 add-ons, and ethernet cards. The are others, but the aforementioned are the most common.
I have never used my PC Card Slot in my PowerBook G4, but generally people would use the slot to upgrade the notebook, with plugs, ports, and wireless network connections, not otherwise available.
As glial said (while i was typing! that's so cool!), they're technically PCMCIA cards. but in the vernacular, people just call them pc cards. But PC Cards, and especially PC Card slots, are sort of a hold over from earlier days of laptops (as in, they were around before USB, i'm pretty sure), as a general way of expanding upon the laptop's functionality / features, etc. As extol hinted at, the ability to add an Ethernet port to the computer was what really kept PC cards viable, as they became very widely used for that purpose. After that, they became very widely used again when wireless was first coming out, and thus laptop manufacturers decided to keep making them, since they continued to prove useful for helping move computers into the next stage of internet readiness. per se. :)
that said, however, there are a number of other things that you can get pc cards for, although they haven't been as widely produced. these include things like USB hubs, or USB 2.0 cards. if you're computer only had 1.0 ports. or even hard drives, which have been a little bit more widely produced. although i do remember looking for sometime once trying to find a pc card hard drive that would add a significant amount of gigs to my memory, but never really found something where the price/storage space ratio was really worth it.
all the same, i might get something just to fill the card slot, instead of having the little plastic piece. :) .hope that's helpful, but if you have questions, post 'em as always! :)
(oh and p.s. perchik - i'm pretty sure that as our highest rated user, you should really be think about getting a custom avatar. :) even if you're hot on the jellyfish thing. you should create a custom jellyfish avatar that is perchik-unique. ;)
it for you modem..but I have seen this cool box that will hold cash or credit cards which is build to fit in that modem slot.its an awesome hidden storage spot
its definitely a PC CARD slot (originally PCMCIA) - long ago you would have to put your wireless card in this slot (when laptops didnt have built in wifi). With the Type 2 PC card slot you have , you can put modem, network and TV cards.
Nowadays most dell laptops have an express card which is a smaller,faster version of PCMIA
I've got a PCMCIA card slot on my laptop as well. I use it mainly to plug in a wireless network card (since my laptop is old and it doesn't have a wireless LAN card already built in).
A friend of mine uses a PCMCIA-based card reader (to read SD cards or CF cards) on his laptop. He doesn't like carrying around external USB-based card readers, so having a PCMCIA-based card reader just sitting in his card slot works for him.
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The button that you mentioned pushing, Perchik, is the button that you use to eject a PCMCIA card once it's put in. Sounds like you currently have a 'dummy' card, since you get a piece of plastic when you eject the contents of the slot. 8-)
once you press the button and the dummy card ejects, how do you get the dummy card to go back in and the button to go back to its orginal postion.
Somehow mine ejected in the laptop bag
I don't understand, and my toshiba manual to get a breakdown of features was lost in a fire. The thing that pops out on the side of my laptop is a tiny cylindrical piece of plastic which does not come out other than to pop out and pop back in. How does a card go in there, or are the pc cards tiny round cylinders too? The pc card I put in my desktop tower is flat and rectangular and attaches to the motherboard so I am very confused.
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The ExpressCard slot found in most late-model laptop computers (and a few desktop computers) is a prime example of a high-speed technology that most users aren't putting to work. Walk into your typical big-box electronics store and you'll find a sea of laptops ready for ExpressCard, but hardly a cupful of devices that will fit into an ExpressCard slot. Fortunately, you can find plenty of ExpressCard devices online.
In this article, you'll discover what ExpressCard is, how you can use it, and some of the leading vendors that make ExpressCard add-on cards. By the time you finish this article, you'll be ready to find a new home for the remote control or blank spacer currently filling your computer's ExpressCard slot so you can improve your computer's versatility.
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The ExpressCard slot found in most late-model laptop computers (and a few desktop computers) is a prime example of a high-speed technology that most users aren't putting to work. Walk into your typical big-box electronics store and you'll find a sea of laptops ready for ExpressCard, but hardly a cupful of devices that will fit into an ExpressCard slot. Fortunately, you can find plenty of ExpressCard devices online.
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ExpressCard is a high-speed bus connector that enables a wide variety of devices to be connected to your laptop. That's what they said about the old CardBus slot as well. So, what makes ExpressCard better? Here are the facts:
- CardBus uses a 32-bit connection to a CardBus controller. The CardBus controller connects to the 32-bit PCI bus, which it has to share with many other devices.
- ExpressCard connects via either the PCI Express (PCIe) or USB 2.0 bus directly to the system chipset. As a result, ExpressCard is at least 2.5x faster than CardBus. If you were disappointed in the performance of devices connected to CardBus, you'll be a lot happier with device performance on ExpressCard.
- The ExpressCard standard incorporates two form factors: ExpressCard/34 and ExpressCard/54. ExpressCard/34 is 34mm wide, and (you guessed it) ExpressCard/54 is 54mm wide. Both form factors use the same 26-contact connector, and you can connect ExpressCard/34 devices into either type of ExpressCard slot.
To see a diagram comparing ExpressCard to CardBus, visit the ExpressCard page at the USB Implementers Forum, Inc website.
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