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    a pcmcia firewire card ? fast enough?

    I am interested in for my 1.8ghz toshiba celeron notebook (it only has pcmcia expansion slots and USB 1.1)

    my only question is - does a PCMCIA slot match the performance of a firewire? I am concerned that PCMCIA ports are not as fast as a "true" firewire port - is that true - or do they transfer about the same speed? or will I take a big performance hit with transferring DV footage?

    thanks !
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    They should be able to get you the 50mb/s you need for firewire...

    On the laptop, HD speed will be more of a limitation...
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    • #3
      Tell me if I'm wrong but I thought that pcmcia pretty much plugged straight into the pci bus... so if a PCI card works this should.
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      • #4
        PCMCIA is almost a PCI slot, so transfer speed should not be a problem, if you have a newer laptop with a 32bit PCMCIA slot.
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        • #5
          thanks - the specs are

          Intel® Celeron® processor 1.8GHz

          256MB SDRAM for multitasking power, expandable to 512MB

          15" TFT active-matrix display

          30.0GB EIDE hard drive

          DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo drive

          nVidia GeForce4 420 Go graphics controller, with 16MB video memory, AGP support and 3D graphics accelerator; TV-out

          Integrated 10/100 Ethernet LAN

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          • #6
            I agree with everyone here, I do have a firewire card in my PCMCIA slot w/ an external drive connected to it, and it works like a charm

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