David Wilson wrote:
On Apr 10, 10:52 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:There aren't any CF card slots in laptops anymore.I like CF cards for my laptops as they all have PCMCIA/CardBus slots and a simple PCMCIA/CF socket adapter allows me to use the CF card (even on my oldest Win95 laptop which does not even have USB). I have never (personally) seen a CF slot in a laptop (while my Dell has a SD- IO slot). Now of course CardBus has been replaced by ExpressCard.
Exactly, and CF adapters are extra, while it's hard to find a laptop without a SD slot (and a few other "camera" types). The last laptop I had with a CardBus slot was retired a few years ago--I remember lamenting that the new one had only the ExpressCard slot. While I love playing with Apple II's, I like to keep within a few years of the "bleeding edge" in PC technology. ;-) (And as prices keep dropping, it costs less and less to do so.) My current laptop is a Core 2 Duo "Centrino" machine running at 1.78GHz, with 3GB of RAM and 160GB of disk. A couple of years ago, it was about $1000, but better configurations are available now for closer to $600. (I never thought I'd say it, but I'm not sure I can justify a desktop machine anymore. ;-) -michael ******** Note new website URL ******** NadaNet and AppleCrate II for Apple II parallel computing! Home page: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."