Anybody tried this before with his laptop ?

Sumggers · Post by **Sumggers** » Sat Aug 10, 2002 9:55 am

After going through a big amount of trouble to have a multiple channel USB soundcard connected to my PC laptop, I gave up and limited myself to the built-in one ... so no prelistening and so on. However, In my neverending quest for a reliable multichannel environment, I came accross this: http://www.magma.com/pci/pci_1slot_main.html

It is a PCI extension for laptops. Basically it's a box where you can put in a PCI card [soundcard - for example a Mia] and connect it to your laptop with a PCMCIA card.

Since PCMCIA seems to be more stable than USB, I thought it would be a great replacement. However, I would like to know if somebodyo n this board already tried this.

Smuggers · Post by **Smuggers** » Sat Aug 10, 2002 10:10 am

Aw, forget it. I just found the price:

CB1H - 1 Slot CardBus PCI Expansion System - Half length with 12V DC power and 0.5metre 68-pin round cable (45W external power supply) - $2,548.00 USD

Mbazzy · Post by **Mbazzy** » Sat Aug 10, 2002 10:16 am

If I remember well Sound on Sound published a review on this one

Link · Post by **Link** » Sat Aug 10, 2002 4:28 pm

Dell do laptops with a good reliable docking bays with PCI that would be cheaper than that.