New Lap Top - Express Card -SATA-Firewire
by Nate Stephens
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Dec 16, 2007 at 6:11:05 pm
Tis the Holidays and Santa is supposed to deliver our new MacBook Pro 15" this week. Now we have to buy all those excessories.
What is the background on the different Manufacturers on the Express card/34 cards.
Are there cards that work, don't work, over priced, priced right?
We are planning on purchasing the dual sata card, a dual firewire card, and a PCMIA card adapter to download P2 cards....
Any adviced on what to buy and not buy??? thanks
PS: we are also buying Ram 2- 2GB modules for our 4GB of ram. Any suggestions on best price, best performance, best resellers? Thanks and a Happy Hoildays to all.
Re: New Lap Top - Express Card -SATA-Firewire by Michael Sacci on Dec 16, 2007 at 10:37:24 pm
I have the Sonnet eSata card and the Duel Adapter P2 and they both works great.
I have purchase almost all of my RAM from macsales.com. Good pricing, top customer service. MacSales also has quad port drives, there external drives are great and great pricing.
Re: New Lap Top - Express Card -SATA-Firewire by Dylan Reeve on Dec 17, 2007 at 7:02:08 am
I don't think you'll find a huge difference between manufacturers on those items really. I am personally pretty fond of Addonics at the moment - they have all those products at what seems like pretty reasonable prices.
As for RAM - My impulse is to stay as far from 'Mac Resellers' as possible - Adding 'Mac' to the front of something is like adding 'Wedding' in front (see, Wedding Cake, Wedding Photographer, Wedding Band, etc)... It just ensures you pay much much more for the same thing.
The MacBook Pro used PC2-5300 SO-DIMM memory - so that is readily available online from all manner of suppliers. Locally (in New Zealand) from a Mac reseller, I'll pay NZ$358ea for the Kingston 2GB modules, or I can buy from a PC reseller and pay $223ea for exactly the same modules.
