the main objective to HW upgrades for mac road warriors is the
abandoning of the cardbus expansion slot for the "benefit" of the
faster expresscard. his is particularly a problem for professional
photographers.
there are a number of software solutions for OS X and the newton that
use serial ports. and there are more coming, talkong about NCU. (say
no more)
/ ®
On 29 aug 2006, at 15.55, Ivan Kowalenko wrote:
>> Has anyone tried anything like this on a MacBook in order to connect
>> the newt?
>> http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/202484
>
> I doubt it, since there's, as yet, no NCU support on OS X (x86
> version), the page talks of Windows drivers (so no one as an idea as
> to if this even works with OS X), and since I'm not sure that
> MacBooks (even the Pros) have an "ExpressCard" port. I'm pretty sure
> the MBPs have PCMCIA/CarBus slots, which are a bit wider than what's
> in that picture.
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