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Posted by Barry Watzman on January 14, 2007, 3:27 pm
Please log in for more thread options Such a laptop would support Cardbus; you could add a USB 2.0 PC card to
the laptop. Not necessarily the best way to go, but definitely a viable
option.
bumm13@yahoo.com wrote:
> BillW50 wrote:
>>> I was just curious, older laptop TV tuner cards (PCMCIA) that I see
>>> selling on ebay seem to have much higher system requirements than
>>> their PCI desktop computer rough-equivalents. The PCI models seem to
>>> only require a Pentium/90 MHz or better while the PCMCIA variants
>>> seem to range from Pentium III/500 MHz to 900 MHz as the minimum
>>> required CPU. I'm curious since the laptop I have is older and is a
>>> Pentium II/400 MHz. Any thoughts on why the requirements vary so much
>>> would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> J. Trees
>> Why bother with PCMCIA TV tuner cards at all? As there is a lot of
>> electronics to cram in such a tiny card. Have you looked into USB TV
>> tuner cards? I love them. Works on either a desktop or a laptop as well.
>>
>
> The laptop I have is older and is a Pentium II/400 MHz. Please read the
> post carefully. As this particular laptop is older, it does not have
> USB 2.0 capability nor a fast modern CPU. As far as I know, USB TV
> tuner devices require USB 2.0 specifically.
>
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