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i have a T61 which i bought around september last year.
i need to buy an attachment so that i can hook up my camcorder via firewire.

does my thinkpad have the PCMCIA card, or the expresscard?

thanks.

Can have both PC card and Express card slots, it depends on how you configured your thinkpad.

hmmm, well mine looks just like this

would this work with the image i posted above?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6815104238

$20, and it comes with a cable

from the look of the buttons for the slots in the pic you posted I'd say you have both, so yes the firewire card will work. It looks like the one I got for my t60 a while back kind of a cheap one but it works for transmitting data to my HD enclosure.

Never, ever go with PCMCIA cards for the T6x series if you can find a ExpressCard solution. The performance of the PCMCIA is severely crippled, for some odd reason

EDIT: See http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... pcmcia+t61

I see NathanA tried out the T60 too, but could get much better rates than me, since, so i think my old usb card might just be very slow by itself, and only be USB2.0 compatible, but not hi-speed.
So it is only a problem with the T61 it seems.

hmmm. thanks for the warning.

so does that mean i have an express card on my T61 for sure and that it WONT have crippled performance ?

paOol wrote:so does that mean i have an express card on my T61 for sure and that it WONT have crippled performance ?

Yes and yes.

man,
so many of the express cards that im looking at are too expensive, or are no name brands >_>.

so many of the express cards that im looking at are too expensive, or are no name brands

Yes, so if you are not concerned about superfast data transfer rates then go with the pcmcia card, like I said it does work, I used mine and I don't remember getting wrapped around the axle or freaking out about the speed. Maybe I just take things slow You could just use your USB port.