2 Port Expresscard Firewire Card

Yup thats basically it, it is really easy to use and comes with an extra firwire and a cd!

Bought this expresscard Firewire card for my wife's XP laptop and it worked fine right out of the box. Haven't had the need to try it in my Vista laptop, but it's supposed to work ok. Shipping is always fast at Amazon.

I plugged the Expresscard into my new Dell notebook and Vista recognized it. I was very pleased.

It didn't work. Technical support was helpful, and they are sending me another one. However, its a hassle. Perhaps shoddy manuacturing?

I purchased this product for a MacBook Pro. Nowhere in the description of the product is indicated it requires an external 12V power supply - not provided with the product. I can't used it to connect pocket-sized external hard drives. The manual says that a 12V external power supply can be needed in certain cases. Of course, as this item is designed for laptops, it is expected that the owner of the laptop uses carry-on external drives ... useless with this card. Worse, there is NO indication of the polarity. of the power supply to purchase extra. This is NOT a good product. I strongly regret this useless purchase.

I'm not sue how powerful of a computer you really need to run this card but my laptop have a 2.0GHz duo core t5750 CPU, 4GB of memory, 512MB ATI video card and the the Ulead video studio software that came with the card still crash everytime when I used it. Sometime I have to do a complete reboot the whole system for it to work, even then you don't want to do anything else with other software because it might freeze evrything up. Note that the operation systome I'm running is Vista Home Premium 64-bit.

2 Port ExpressCard IEEE-1394 Firewire Card