Re: Cheap Laptop PCI products

From: Grant Stockly <grant@cmosxray.com>
Date: Tue Jan 18 2005 - 10:58:37 AKST

The $175 one would also be what's needed to add two slots to those new ITX
motherboards (some boards have a mini-PCI slot). The cable length can be
up to 12", so you could make a pretty compact custom case and still have a
lot of cards.

At 11:24 PM 1/17/2005 -0900, Jim Gribbin wrote:
>Grant Stockly wrote:
>>Some products I found today:
>>If you wanted to put a laptop and a 1u right angle riser in a custom case
>>http://www.interfacemasters.com/products/pci_tools/mini_pci_to_pci/index.html
>>
>>This one has its own bridge chip. I called and got a price of $175. It
>>plugs into the MiniPCI slot on the bottom of newer laptops. If you have
>>built in wireless ethernet, it probably takes up that space.
>>http://www.interfacemasters.com/products/pci_tools/im380/index.html
>>I might get one and try it out.
>>Grant
>>
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>The docking station for my laptop (Armada E500) has a PCI slot. I think if
>I need to hook a PCI card to it, I'll just go that route. Thank you very much.
>
>Jim

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