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Only one PC Card slot for the XPS 2.

post #1 of 12
3/5/05 at 12:27am
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Did anyone else catch that? I should've looked closer before placing my order since I was planning to use 2 PC cards (audigy + wireless). Guess I'll have to order the internal wireless after my xps2 ships and make due with one PC card. So if anyone else like me was planning to use 2 PC cards, take note so you don't make the same mistake as I did.
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post #2 of 12
3/5/05 at 12:37am
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Originally Posted by 5150 Joker
Did anyone else catch that? I should've looked closer before placing my order since I was planning to use 2 PC cards (audigy + wireless). Guess I'll have to order the internal wireless after my xps2 ships and make due with one PC card. So if anyone else like me was planning to use 2 PC cards, take note so you don't make the same mistake as I did.
why in the world would you rather use a pc card wireless adapter than a built in one?
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post #3 of 12
3/5/05 at 12:38am
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Originally Posted by krimzin
why in the world would you rather use a pc card wireless adapter than a built in one?
Already had one so I figured I didn't need to order the internal. Plus I wasn't quite sure how good the internal ones Dell sells are.
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post #4 of 12
3/5/05 at 12:42am
Plus some of the newer wireless cards support more than the 54 mbps cards that Dell offers.
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post #5 of 12
3/5/05 at 1:14am
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Well problem solved, just ordered the internal dell wireless card from the accessory section.
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post #6 of 12
3/5/05 at 1:17am
yea that was one problem but i think many notebooks nowadays only offer 1 pcmcia slot... and one of them is already taken up by the audigy (great product). but the non-internal cards are usually more powerful and can catch signals much better than those internal ones. by the way i got the intel internal cards, are those better than the dell ones or?
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post #7 of 12
3/5/05 at 1:18am
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Originally Posted by ethanweku
yea that was one problem but i think many notebooks nowadays only offer 1 pcmcia slot... and one of them is already taken up by the audigy (great product). but the non-internal cards are usually more powerful and can catch signals much better than those internal ones. by the way i got the intel internal cards, are those better than the dell ones or?
From what people have been posting, the Dell internal ones get better range and signal integrity. Heh the card is going to get here almost a month before my laptop.
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post #8 of 12
3/5/05 at 1:23am
rily? oh crap... i ordered the intel one... do you think i can still make changes? and yea... it takes soooooooooo long for the notebook to be assembled... how i wish i could just get over there and assemble it myself.
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post #9 of 12
3/5/05 at 1:24am
only one pcmcia slot but XPS2 also has six USB ports... most I've seen in any notebook.
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post #10 of 12
3/5/05 at 1:25am
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Originally Posted by ethanweku
rily? oh crap... i ordered the intel one... do you think i can still make changes? and yea... it takes soooooooooo long for the notebook to be assembled... how i wish i could just get over there and assemble it myself.
I woudln't bother since it will most likey just cause you headaches to get the order cancelled and then have it placed again. I doubt the difference is that huge anyway.
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post #11 of 12
3/5/05 at 1:27am
oh okay... hopefully that is the case... and i thought intel would be better than dell's own made one...
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post #12 of 12
3/5/05 at 3:08am
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Originally Posted by ethanweku
rily? oh crap... i ordered the intel one... do you think i can still make changes? and yea... it takes soooooooooo long for the notebook to be assembled... how i wish i could just get over there and assemble it myself.
Don't stress the performance is negligible at best either way. I have used both Dell and Intel wireless internal cards and they both work great. Stick with what you ordered...
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