On 4/27/10 7:44 PM, John Carmonne wrote:
That's part of the Mac adventure making it all work, and you can. A USB FireWire combo card is availible. I don't usally watch DVDs while I'm chewing gum so no bother there. But I do listen to CDs and it plays them. If I have to have a DVD I can just look up at the tube:-)
One other problem with PC Cards in this case: Most USB/FW cards have a thicker outboard section for the connectors. Many Wifi cards do to for the antenna. You can't put two such cards in the computer, the lower one won't fit. There are USB cards that are slim but they use a dongle to connect the USB cable and that always seems like a PiTA. There is at least one WiFi card that has a skinny antenna that will fit under another card in the lower slot. I have one but I don't recall the name off hand. Also having it sit next to another card has to foul up it's radiation pattern but I don't know how much. I did run such a setup and the WiFi worked okay.
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