Apple may have dumped ExpressCard from their new MacBook Pro models, but PCMCIA - the organization behind the expansion card standard – are striding ahead with the official release of ExpressCard ...

With the MacBook Pro, Apple discarded the old PC Card slot in favor of ExpressCard/34, a more compact expansion slot that offers greater transfer speeds and an increasing array of uses. The ...

Looking for more stuff to plug into that Thunderbolt port? If you've got a smattering of ExpressCard/34 doodads laying around, Sonnet's upcoming Echo adapter might just fit the bill. Scheduled for an ...

Notebooks tend not to get upgrades as often as desktops. For the most part our desktops are easy to work on and swapping out a processor, memory or HDD can be done in just a few minutes. It is ...

SuperSpeed USB devices may have started to trickle onto the market, but it will still be a while before their use becomes widespread. That's simply because most people won't have the USB 3.0 ports ...

While I appreciate that the Macs of today are leaps and bounds faster than their predecessors, that doesn’t mean I’m always happy with the speed of my machines. Consider my MacBook Pro, an early 2008 ...

Apple's Thunderbolt port may have brought with it a ton of hype, but thus far, there aren't too many actual peripherals to use with it. But of course, that's changing as time progresses. While it's ...

No sooner does Apple drop the MacBook Pro's ExpressCard slot than the ExpressCard organization itself announces a big upgrade to version 2. The *ExpressCard Standard 2.0 *has one key difference: speed ...

Just what we need, another card format. With new and smaller flash card formats seeming to pop up almost daily, it seemed inevitable that the venerable PC Card would get a revamp. After all, the ...

A significant step to broaden the use of PC Cards in desktop computers was taken today by the PCMCIA industry standards group. The PCMCIA group — a nonprofit trade association founded in 1989 to ...

USB 3 is showing up in premium notebooks and PCs but plenty of new PCs don't come with it yet - and if you're happy with your current laptop you wouldn't upgrade just for a faster device connection.