{"id":919,"date":"2007-04-11T06:52:33","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T13:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.computerworld.com:\/\/b44cde2972fbe3da3e972e094a5ecf11"},"modified":"2007-04-11T06:52:33","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T13:52:33","slug":"pc-cardexpress-card-usefulness-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=919","title":{"rendered":"PC Card\/Express Card usefulness redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/5304\">mentioned a device that I would finally find useful for the ExpressCard slot in my MacBook Pro<\/a><\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>Some of the comments were interesting (and even rude), but obviously the original thrust of my anti-card slot comments were mis-interpreted. Years ago, I could fully understand why a PCMCIA slot would be useful, because the technology was modernizing all the time. <\/p>\n<p>Today, most laptops come with a combination of built-in interfaces and the universal interfaces (USB, Firewire) that could be just as effective as the Express Card\/PC Card slot for the types of devices we frequently use through the carded slot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=9GzrWY\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=9GzrWY\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/108264213\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/5304\">mentioned a device that I would finally find useful for the ExpressCard slot in my MacBook Pro<\/a><\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>Some of the comments were interesting (and even rude), but obviously the original thrust of my anti-card slot comments were mis-interpreted. Years ago, I could fully understand why a PCMCIA slot would be useful, because the technology was modernizing all the time. <\/p>\n<p>Today, most laptops come with a combination of built-in interfaces and the universal interfaces (USB, Firewire) that could be just as effective as the Express Card\/PC Card slot for the types of devices we frequently use through the carded slot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=9GzrWY\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=9GzrWY\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/108264213\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}