P2 to Apple's new MacBook? No pcmcia slot, no read!!

[CareyB]

Does anyone have a clue how one could adapt the ExpressCard/34 slot on the new Apple MacBook laptop to a slot that could read a P2 card? Like the pcmcia-to-USB adapters for pcmcia bearing laptops. Or maybe a USB or FW400 conversion to pcmcia? The MacBook is sans pcmcia/CardBus card slot. Maybe Apple knows something we don't, but they've really left us out in the cold for reading P2.

As a side note, isn't it funny (odd /ironic) that Apple is co-sponsoring these get-togethers with Panasonic for HVX users and has just come out with the Intel laptops and left them unable to read P2. So they're promoting a marriage that won't work as intended on a new Apple laptop. So we cannot now get from P2 to FCP on their newest generation laptops!!!

I hope someone at Apple reads this and takes the hint. A great step backward.

I do hope this post gets noticed here in "technical," perhaps it should have been posted under what's new with HVX.

Thanks,

Carey

 

[bgundu]

There has already been a long discussion on this topic back when the new MacBook Pro was announced. Perhaps the new 17" version will be different.

 

[xray]

This is the situation, you can use the old 15" powerbook with PCMCIA slot but not the new Intel ones. You can use PC laptops. Apple is a future driven company, with new standards, the same compatible problem is with the new and old PCI (x/Express) versions. The funny/ironic/odd part of working with partners like Panasonic does not change that, Sony is a partner too.

But they are P2 partners and I like to see a solution for the new Macbooks an P2. So you can edit FCP and load the P2 with high speed.

Is PCMCIA in its original form a little outdated and is the new ExpressCard/34 slot a better solution for laptops with less space? Most of the laptops today have built in WifI and together with firewire and usb the need for full slots is gone?