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Figure 23-15 34-mm and 54-mm ExpressCards

You can enhance an older laptop that has an ExpressCard slot in a several

ways. The most common are adding a smart card reader—so the portable

can grab pictures off an SD card, for example—and a cellular card. The latter

enables you to connect the laptop to the Internet via a valid cellular telephone

subscription, like you would get from AT&T or Verizon. You can also find

wireless cards, though the limits of ExpressCard technology tops these out at

802.11n, not the most current Wi-Fi options.

ExpressCards connect to either the Hi-Speed USB 2.0 bus or the PCI

Express bus. These differ phenomenally in speed. The amazingly-slow-incomparison

USB version has a maximum throughput of 480 Mbps. The PCIe

version, in contrast, roars in at 2.5 Gbps in unidirectional communication.

Table 23-1 shows the throughput and variations for ExpressCards.

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