Are their laptop PCMCIA Card for data storage or video out ?”
I’ll answer the question about storage and it is important to distinguish between PCMCIA and CardBus becuase one is slower since PCMCIA is an older but highly compatible standard. Example, if you are using a PCMCIA adapter for a Compact Flash or CF card, you’ll experience about 2MBs transfer speed which is painfully slow. But, CardBus adapters which are the same form factor and fit inside the PCMCIA slot can deliver up to 100 – 133 MBs per second, that is 100 – 133 Megabytes per second. Now, most CF cards aren’t fast enough to take advantage of that throughput and there are other bottlenecks in the operating system which may prevent you from fully realizing that speed, but you’ll know that you’re transferring data as fast as possible. Your CardBus adapter HAS TO BE LABELED “CardBus” to be fully compliant with the new standard. Depending on how old your laptop is, it may not have a CardBus slot so the fast adapter will downshift to the slower PCMCIA speed. I’m attaching links and pics o
