MacBook Pro

[Ron Boyes 0]

Hi Guys,

 

Just sold my third kidney and purchased a 30" & 23" cinema screens (for use with my quad G5) along with the MacBook Pro with 2 Gig RAM.

Prior to this I had a 17" PowerBook and I used the PCMCIA slot for my compact flash reader.

Is there a Compact Flash Reader that can be used in the ExpressCard slot yet?

Thanks

ron

[echeng 0]

Does the Macbook have the smaller expresscard/34 slot, or the larger expresscard/54 slot?

 

if it's the smaller, than no CF card reader will ever exist for it.

 

here's one for SD and related media:

http://www.siig.com/product.asp?catid=91&pid=1051

 

not sure where to buy it.

[RogerC 4]

it's 34. There may be a CF reader, but it won't be internal.

[Ron Boyes 0]

Always waiting for something to come out

[RogerC 4]

don't sweat it, get one of the little lexar firewire readers. And get one of the short, thin, limp firewire cables they sell at the apple store, 1/2 meter. Great for travel. I have one and carry an ipod adapter and a 6 pin to 4 pin adapter for it.

[Paul Kay 62]

I agree with Roger. As I carry 12" Powerbooks (no PCMCIA), I've always used Lexar FW readers which are cheap light and reliable - I carry a couple. The iPod (bought when I ran out of hard drive) is an excellent if expensive additional backup and is easily carried in a shirt pocket withh a lot of images on it at the end of a trip.

[Drew 0]

Alternatively, the new Sandisk Card readers using ESP are almost as fast as the lexar and use USB2.0. I use the 12 in 1 since I use SD, CF and Duo. I get 13-15mb/s downloads on a PB G4. It's even faster on XP for some reason.