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Re: The poor serial port less laptop owners with a ExpressCard Slot

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Originally Posted by Kingofl337 View Post
Just to hook everyone up, I made a great find reticently.

If you have a new laptop with only a expresscard slot Startech makes
a great serial port adapter. It has a real UART not a prolific PL2303 usb-to-serial chip.
It can program the 2006-08 controller in about 20 second flat.
I ordered mine from Amazon and got it today. It downloaded at least as fast as our laptop with a real serial port, if not faster.

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson View Post
A warning to anyone who sees this and decides it's just what they need: "ExpressCard" is not the same thing as "PC Card" (which used to be called "PCMCIA Card").
There are several good PCMCIA cards, but this is the first ExpressCard that I've seen that works well.