What Is an Express Card on Laptop?
The ExpressCard standard is for card-based peripherals for laptops. It was designed to replace the PCMCIA/CardBus standard, which some forms of ExpressCard superficially resemble.PurposeExpressCard is designed to allow fast communications between a peripheral and the computer it’s attached to. If a person wishes to add extra functions to a laptop without permanently changing the hardware inside of it, there is probably an ExpressCard that can provide the function.PeripherialsThere are cards for wireless networking, mobile broadband, TV tuners, extra ports (USB, FireWire, etc.), external sound systems, and high-speed SATA (Serial ATA) hard drives. ExpressCard versions of these peripherals are slightly more expensive than older accessories based on the CardBus standard.Comparison to CardBusThe ExpressCard standard was developed by the Personal Computer Memory Card International Association. The previous standard meant for the same function was known as CardBus. CardBus was designed to fu
