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Posted at 5:07 PM on Tuesday 07/17/07 by
Ben
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TechSunny.com has this PCMCIA to PCI Converter Card for $18 with free shipping. Use it to use a notebook PCMCIA card with your PC. It supports hot swapping of cards, and 32-bit (CardBus) PC cards.
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    stephen - Posted 6:29 pm PDT 07/17/07 (191 Posts)  Report Spam

    I think this is pci to pcmcia

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    petep2112 - Posted 6:53 pm PDT 07/17/07 (487 Posts)  Report Spam

    Must agree.

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    dave_c - Posted 7:12 pm PDT 07/17/07 (16748 Posts)  Report Spam

    You must have pretty valuable PCMCIA cards, a careful shopper can usually get the PCI card functionality without having to adapt a PCMCIA card for the same cost.

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    Necro Joe - Posted 7:14 pm PDT 07/17/07 (1032 Posts)  Report Spam

    How handy is "hotswapping" really, when it's a PCI card, so you'll have to reach around the back of your computer to do any "swapping."

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    stephen - Posted 7:38 pm PDT 07/17/07 (191 Posts)  Report Spam

    seeing as half the desktops at home always have their case open...then one I'm using doesn't even have faceplate right now..bacon's not that inconvienent and if you have a laptop and a notebook and already have plenty of pcmcia cards then they double up and save you some money.

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    Philster - Posted 8:10 pm PDT 07/17/07 (802 Posts)  Report Spam

    It's only the dorks like you running with their cases off. A super dork like myself puts all the covers on because it's less of a hassle to dust. And end users mostly can't even tell what the actual computer is - they sometimes bring in the monitor thinking that's it. If you asked them to remove the cover on the computer, they'd have a fit, and then dissamble the DVD player or something.

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    illegalsmile - Posted 8:13 pm PDT 07/17/07 (366 Posts)  Report Spam

    or they'd try to make toast in their cd-rom drive because it has a laser.

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    m0f0 - Posted 8:13 pm PDT 07/17/07 (7605 Posts)  Report Spam

    Sweet burp Jesus Christ, it's like a nerd orgy of geekness in here.

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    Philster - Posted 8:54 pm PDT 07/17/07 (802 Posts)  Report Spam

    look who's talking

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    toddsucks2 - Posted 9:10 pm PDT 07/17/07 (2382 Posts)  Report Spam

    Let's keep it friendly ladies. No need for a cat fight just because you're all on the rag.

    sincerely,
    toddsucks

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    RottNDude - Posted 9:20 pm PDT 07/17/07 (41 Posts)  Report Spam

    These are great if you have a cellular data card and want to use it on a desktop without a lot of hassles.

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    supermilk7 - Posted 9:28 pm PDT 07/17/07 (59 Posts)  Report Spam

    Anyone know if the reverse of this exists? PCI to PCMCIA to let me use my PCI cards on a laptop?

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    illegalsmile - Posted 9:57 pm PDT 07/17/07 (366 Posts)  Report Spam

    NO THEY DON'T EXIST. WTF IS THE POINT?

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    illegalsmile - Posted 9:59 pm PDT 07/17/07 (366 Posts)  Report Spam

    WTF DON'T THEY HAVE CRAZY CAT THROWING LADY AVATAR?

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    Kyser_Soze - Posted 10:21 pm PDT 07/17/07 (731 Posts)  Report Spam

    #12 Try a big hammer Wink

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    nemesis - Posted 10:46 pm PDT 07/17/07 (486 Posts)  Report Spam

    #12, it absolutely exists if you want to drop $1000 for it: http://sewelldirect.com/pcmcia-to-pci-1-slot.asp

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    michelob - Posted 12:02 am PDT 07/18/07 (24 Posts)  Report Spam

    they do exist

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    illegalsmile - Posted 5:26 am PDT 07/18/07 (366 Posts)  Report Spam

    seriously, like anyone on bensbargains.net, ESPECIALLY #12, is going to buy a $1000 pci->pcmcia adapter.

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    Myself - Posted 6:18 am PDT 07/18/07 (874 Posts)  Report Spam

    #12, try Magma.com for all the options. You can sprout PCI slots out of CardBus slots, PCI slots, PCIe slots...

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    Wizard Prang - Posted 9:47 am PDT 07/19/07 (332 Posts)  Report Spam

    #6 has apparently never heard of an air filter.

    But then he probably doesn't have a lab with six computers in it, either. Some have their cases on, some off, some on but not screwed down. Depends.

    #8, you're right - but then, this is a geeky product.

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