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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 4:14 pm
by david
Surreal wrote:What's the difference between an express card and pcmcia?
The "old" type of cards are actually called "PC-Card" these days, and have a specific form factor, meaning the size of the slot, the connector etc. (Actually there are a couple of different thicknesses defined.)
The PC-Card cards are internally of two different forms. The older one is PCMCIA which uses the old ISA bus in the computer. The new one is called CardBus and uses the PCI bus to talk to the computer.
Then there's the new kid on the block, the Express Card, which is smaller and with a smaller connector and generally incompatible with the older slots. I think it uses PCI Express and maybe optionally USB internally.
Technical enough for you?
Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:15 pm
by Greg Avakian
Surreal wrote:What's the difference between an express card and pcmcia?
Availability?
Has anyone seen anything besides this?
sound card
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 7:29 am
by Ryan
Greg Avakian wrote:Has anyone seen anything besides this?
sound card
I have the USB version of the X-Fi and it's pretty great so far. There's not a lot of good Expresscard sound cards yet. Personally if I were you I would buy the Creative X-Fi or wait for the Echo Indigo DJ express card that should be coming out in mid-october.
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:53 am
by Slickmike
Ryan wrote:FOR ALL YOU ECHO INDIGO LOVERS....
I called Echo today to see if they were developing an Express Card version of the Indigo DJ. Well, they are... and from what they told me, it should be out by mid October.
That's the question I was coming to ask
I totally need a new laptop...but won't give up my echo sound card.
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 10:25 am
by Ryan
Wow a Slick Mike sighting. Where you been Westie?
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 10:36 am
by Slickmike
Ryan wrote:Wow a Slick Mike sighting. Where you been Westie?
I'm flattered that anyone remembers me on the boards. I don't have much time to post anymore. Still here in Boston....And that would be about 10 years of Lindy DJing to go with my recent Westie shananigans...now venturing into two-step as well.
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 9:07 pm
by Surreal
Has anyone had any experience with the Creative Xmod? Cnet review below:
http://reviews.cnet.com/external-audio- ... 05686.html
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 6:48 am
by Ryan
Yeah. I use it. It sounds fantastic. They have an express card version of the same thing though if you want something non-USB.
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 7:57 pm
by Surreal
Is that the same card that people were talking about a few posts above?
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 9:41 pm
by dancin_hanson
No, that's the X-Fi card.
The Xmod connects to a USB port. I'm curious what people think of the XMod too.
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 11:37 pm
by Jonas
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 1:35 pm
by Ryan
The Echo Indigo DJ Express Card won't hit the market until late December now. I called today and it got pushed back a few months.
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 3:25 pm
by Mr Awesomer
So I'm pimping a MacBook Pro now... are there still no ExpressCard/34 sound cards available? Creative's got a /54 model... but no /34.
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 4:15 am
by J-h:n
I decided to order one of these anyway[/quote]
OK, this post was a year old, but I'll give it a shot: Where did you order it from? I haven't found any place online that will ship the Turtle Beach sound cards outside the USA.
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 1:41 am
by Surreal
A lot of this goes totally over my head, but there's some good reading about soundcards in there:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=41241.0