sumarise ppc problems

[Eric Dunbar]

> > Wouldn't you know - I finally got my hands on an Orinoco Silver card
> > about a week before my Dell laptop died. It did work well though. :o)
> > The new iBooks don't have any PCMCIA (or PC Card - whatever they call
> > 'em now) slots. Just USB and Firewire. Since there wasn't a quick
> > answer to this question, I'll start digging myself and report my
> > findings back here.
> 
> Ahhh. An iBook! These are the consumer versions and, well, only a tiny
> fraction of users use PC slots for anything other than wireless cards
> so that's how Apple differentiates between the "pro" and "consumer"
> models (and justifies the $$$ difference).

FYI The Airport and Airport Extreme slots are merely modified PC(MCIA)
slots. On my PowerBook G3 "Pismo" (the last black PowerBook) the
Airport slot is on top of the PC(MCIA) slot (which I don't use
because... everything else hooks up through FireWire (exactly how
Apple predicted that the vast majority of computer users would use
their computers ;-). AFAIK the Airport slots are merely smaller PCMCIA
slots with some cost savings in the circuitry.

Eric.