Dell Inspiron 640 (express card slot)

movingtables · 3 Feb 2008 at 00:09

well bought this laptop summer 2007.
It has an express card slot i just noticed.

er, urmmm , *cough* whats it for ?

sja360 · 3 Feb 2008 at 00:17

newer PCMCIA style slot, i have one too. i presume its there because most chipsets are using a pci-express bus and capable of more than PCMCIA is able to offer, so they put express card 34/54 slots. which is good i guess

movingtables · 3 Feb 2008 at 00:18

sja360 said:
newer PCMCIA style slot, i have one too. i presume its there because most chipsets are using a pci-express bus and capable of more than PCMCIA is able to offer, so they put express card 34/54 slots. which is good i guess

yeh but what can i stick in it ? lol

PhillyDee · 3 Feb 2008 at 03:33

About the only thing i know of at the moment that is ExpressCard is the Vodafone Monile Broadband adapter. The Older PCMCIA have things like USB ports, firewire, modems, ethernet, wireless, tv cards, serial ports etc. The newer ones dont have much.

movingtables · 3 Feb 2008 at 09:45

yeh i looked on wiki and nothing exciting.
it did mention some support of 1394 and usb2 wich my laptop already has.
did say you could stick flash memory in so maybe that would be useful.
nothing to see and move along as they say huh.

Indy500 · 3 Feb 2008 at 09:53

Expresscard is cheaper to put on the laptops, but more expensive to make cards for. Hence nothing worth buying for it...

Senture · 3 Feb 2008 at 10:39

You can get an Express card slot eSATA adapter. Say goodbye to rubbish USB2 transfer rates, and your bank balance

Indy500 · 3 Feb 2008 at 10:47

Senture said:
You can get an Express card slot eSATA adapter. Say goodbye to rubbish USB2 transfer rates, and your bank balance

Some Asus\MSI laptops already have eSATA.

Surfer · 3 Feb 2008 at 13:37

movingtables said:
yeh but what can i stick in it ? lol

you could stick in a better soundcard i guess

thats what i did with mine.