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Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / December 2006Delkin ExpressCard 34 CF Card Reader
The MacBook Pro has no PC card slot, just a 34mm Express Card slot. The problem with that is that until recently there were no CF card readers that would fit in this slot. The slot is much too narrow for a CF card or anything holding it to be inserted completely, of course. Delkin makes a card adapter called the Film ExpressCard 34 Compactflash Adapter. I have been using mine for a little bit. My impression is that it is faster than a USB 2.0 card reader, but I do not yet know by how much. It took about 45 seconds for Aperture to import 60 Nikon D200 uncompressed RAW files. This is a significant improvement over the several minutes such an operation took with a PC card adapter or even USB 2.0. The adapter itself is small enough to be carried around with the computer, but you could not safely leave it in the ExpressCard slot. It just sticks out too far. But it seems a reasonable solution so far. Both B&H and Adorama list these on their site, but Adorama had them in stock. It's probably a pci slot. Both macs and windows laptops have them, you can use it for a cf card, with an adaptor or one of these new broadband net cards that the mobile phone companies are advertising. Harry > The MacBook Pro has no PC card slot, just a 34mm Express Card slot. The > problem with that is that until recently there were no CF card readers that [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Both B&H and Adorama list these on their site, but Adorama had them in stock. > It's probably a pci slot. Both macs and windows laptops have them, you > can use it for a cf card, with an adaptor or one of these new broadband > net cards that the mobile phone companies are advertising. When I got a microdrive (CF) a few years ago it came with one of these and while fast, it bogs ddown the laptop's other functions badly. I seem to recall that's because it uses the seial port or some such. >>The MacBook Pro has no PC card slot, just a 34mm Express Card slot. The >>problem with that is that until recently there were no CF card readers that [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >> >>Both B&H and Adorama list these on their site, but Adorama had them in stock. > It's probably a pci slot. Both macs and windows laptops have them Um, not quite. The ExpressCard 34 that Macs have now replaces the old PCMCIA Cardbus slot. Some other computers have ExpressCard slots. The Acer Aspire Laptop, like the MacBook Pro, comes with only a single ExpressCard 34 slot. PCI refers to a protocol used for a whole family of slots and adapters. For a picture of the Delkin card, see here: http://www.delkin.com/products/adapters/expresscard34/ |
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