[LAU] Successor/replacement for RME HDSP+Multiface?

[david]

On 08/30/2014 02:15 AM, Kazakore wrote:
>
> On 30/08/14 17:02, Kazakore wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> LOADS of laptops have ExpressCard slots!
>>>
>>> Really? Which ones?
>>>
>>
>> My Lenovo X230 for starters, plus most the others I looked at in the T
>> range at the time (just over a year ago.) My internet is far too slow
>> to do any research on today's models. If things truly have changed in
>> just the last year them I'm sorry. Didn't seem hard to find when I was
>> looking last summer/autumn and that doesn't feel that long ago.
>>
>> Well the basic T440 doesn't but it's taken me about 10 minutes just to
>> check that so really am going to stop now. Hope you find something.
>> (Maybe the T540 or T440P??) I remember being surprised when I heard
>> Apple had dropped it from the MBP! Seems maybe that was the start of
>> it being dropped everywhere... :-(
>
>
> Seems the latest range have got rid of them but I can make you a
> suggested. Get a Refurbished one from Lenovo Outlet Store. I went on the
> assumption that there is a greater chance of you being in the States
> than the UK so checked the store for there and both the X230 and T530
> were listed as available and both have ExpressCard.
>
> My X230 was from the UK Outlet store. Was quite lucky I think. About
> 40-50% reduction when ever other laptop they had listed was only 10% or
> a bit more. I have my suspicions (hopes) a bulk order was cancelled and
> thus they had a lot of them and they price went cheap. Good thing about
> the X230 is that it's about the only ThinkPad model I found that goes
> through the same tests as the T-series ("MilSpec Tested") :-)
>
> Hope this is of some help. Dale.

Thanks, sounds useful. Looks like their Outlet Stores are Europe only, 
don't see USA as an option.

I glanced at their current T540p model; no ExpressCard. T440, no EC.

Toshiba - can't tell.

Looks to me like ExpressCard is dead.

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