I guess i'm just acting like a little kid that keeps asking 'but why' until I find out the absolute answer.Ī PC laptop is a PCMCIA hardware device, and the driver that Panasonic supplies handles communicating with the P2 card directly. Hopefully he can shed some more light on the subject. I'll conclude with Barry surely knows a lot. I have no way of testing or learning about it) I have had my HVX200 for over 2 weeks and I am still waiting for P2 cards :-(. Besides if Panasonic came out with a cheap usb reader they coupld make a killing. When you mount the P2 card in your laptop what happens? Does it mount as an storage device? If it does there must be a standard to the PCMICA cardbus that has to be met becuase if all laptops meat the requirement there must be another solution.

PCMICA has been out since 1991, its not exactly a new technology and is already being replaced. $1800 for a P2 store will work but thats a lot of money for a PCMCIA Cardbus. It also kinda worries me because if I want the life of my camera to last I have to make sure my laptop stays running and its alread 4 years old. There must be certain specification that meet the requireement.

I mean my laptop came out long before the HVX200 ever hit production. If the reader has to be built specificaly for the P2 card how are all older laptops working. I definetly do not want to start an arguement but I just would like to understand better the topic at hand.

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