MacBook Pro Idea and P2

[tourneestudio]

QUESTION:
I don't know if this has been covered before, but would this (link) be a good solution to better utilize the new Mac PBs with P2 workflow? (Especially when the Apple Pro Apps go Universal)

http://www.amtron.com/reader/uisdma2w.htm

Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[Barry_Green]

No -- none of the USB reader devices will work with a 32-bit card. There'll have to be some sort of dedicated ExpressCard->PCMCIA adapter invented for the MacBook.

 

[Drew599]

For me this is the biggest drawback of the MacBook Pro. It makes me think that I should just hang onto my 867 PowerBook upgrade the hard drive to 100GB and use it for off loading of the P2 cards. So I guess the PowerBooks could be used as production off-loading stations. Now all Panasonic needs to do is come out with a P2 viewer for Mac.

 

[tourneestudio]

Thanks Barry.

What about this:

http://www.roalan.com/USB to PCMCIA Adapter.htm

Read the second sentence in the second paragraph.

? Maybe ? If the Mac will support it? If you don't need a Mac version of the driver?

Just searching.

 

[ullanta]

As the link says, the roalan you reference only supports 3G wireless data cards (which have a very low data rate), and no other types of cards, specifically not memory cards.

Rad the sentence above "Supported Cards"...

 

[Charles Scalfani]

Here's a company that says they're going to be making an adapter http://www.duel-systems.com/products/adapters.aspx . God only know when that will be.