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Miscellaneous Card Reviews - October, 1998 To June, 2002

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Alchemy ATA 133 RAID PCI - Miglia

"an internal hardware RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) array may be the perfect way to add lots of very fast storage to your system or to upgrade your boot drive" ... read more at Macworld

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UltraATA 133/100 RAID - SIIG

"an internal hardware RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) array may be the perfect way to add lots of very fast storage to your system or to upgrade your boot drive" ... read more at Macworld

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Tempo RAID133 - Sonnet Technologies

"an internal hardware RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) array may be the perfect way to add lots of very fast storage to your system or to upgrade your boot drive" ... read more at Macworld

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PowerDomain 29160 - Adaptec (Ultra3 SCSI)

Adaptec's card supports external LVD or SE devices and has additional connectors for internal SE devices, both 50 and 68-pin. By segregating newer, faster LVD devices from older, slower SE devices on separate segments of the SCSI bus, this card achieves good backward compatibility ... read more at MacUser UK

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USB/FireWire Combo Card - Swann

It's cheap, it delivers both formats in a single card and it works without fuss. ... read more at MacUser UK

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Igniter - Aurora Video Systems (Video capture)

Aurora should be lauded for bringing easy-to-use, incredibly fast video-capture cards to the Mac market. With a steep price tag, the Igniter video-capture card is aimed toward the pro-sumer video market rather than home-movie hobbyists ... read more at MacAddict

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Formac Pro TV - Formac

What more could you ask for than watching TV on your computer while working on your finances or surfing the Web? What a great combination - and Formac's ProTV PCI card makes it all possible. ... read more at MacAddict

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IEEE 1394/USB fireLINE Combo Card - Evergreen

it provides two USB ports and, in this case, three external FireWire ports on a single PCI card. But the Evergreen has an additional FireWire port for connecting internal devices ... read more at MacUser UK

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TurboMAX ATA-66 PCI (ATA/66) - ProMax Systems

ProMax optimizes their TurboMax card for digital video by preventing bus resets. While resets can interfere with video playback, this configuration is not optimal for a server ... read more at Macworld

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Tempo Ultra ATA66 (ATA/66) - Sonnet Technologies

The Sonnet Tempo Ultra comes with no special software, but it's available at a rock-bottom price of $99. Sonnet says the card works with any ATA drive, both ATA/66 and ATA/33 drives ... read more at Macworld

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UltraTek/66 ATA RAID Card (ATA/66)- VST

The UltraTek/66 comes bundled with SoftRAID. Although the card is $50 more than the Sonnet card, SoftRAID retails for $145, making this bundle a good deal if you plan on adding multiple drives ... read more at Macworld

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6-Port Combo card (FireWire/USB) - Firewire Direct

Supplies power; inexpensive; three external FireWire ports; two external USB ... read more at Macworld

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3-Port PCI Card - Firewire Direct

Supplies power; inexpensive ... read more at Macworld

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fireLine PCI CardCombo (FireWire/USB) - Evergreen FW

Three external FireWire ports; two external USB ports ... read more at Macworld

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fireLine PCI Card - Evergreen FW

Three external FireWire ports. ... read more at Macworld

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OrangeLink FireWire & U2W SCSI - Orange Micro

Supplies power; includes U2W SCSI ... read more at Macworld

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PCI FireWire Adapter - Macally

2+1 Supplies power ... read more at Macworld

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FireWire Card - Keyspan

3+1 No power ... read more at Macworld

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WD FireWire Adapter - Western Digital

2 No power ... read more at

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PowerDomain 29160N - Adaptec

If you are encumbered by the slow transfer rates of your current SCSI, FireWire, or USB device, Ultra SCSI will certainly improve your computers' speed ... read more at macHOME

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OrangeLink FireWire CardBus PC Card - Orange Micro

Need FireWire to go? Orange Micro has a new solution for PowerBooks that shipped after the original PowerBook G3 but before the 2000 model. The OrangeLink FireWire CardBus PC Card supplies two FireWire ports (without power) and occupies the CardBus slot in a PowerBook G3 ... read more at MacAddict

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gPort - Griffen Technology

Griffin Technology's $49 gPort is a small device that plugs into the Mac's internal modem slot, replacing the modem with a single serial port ... read more at Macworld

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Orangelink FireWire/USB PCI Board - Orange Micro

There's nothing like adding some USB and FireWire ports to kick-start an aging Mac, and Orange Micro's OrangeLink FireWire/USB PCI Board does this task very reliably. The card provides two FireWire and two USB ports on a single 7-inch PCI card, which takes up only one PCI slot on your Mac ... read more at MacAddict

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PowerDomain 39160 - Adaptec

The PowerDomain 39160 SCSI host adapter aims to fix the frustration by adding another high-speed SCSI bus to your Mac through a PCI card. But this isn't any ordinary SCSI bus - it has a theoretical maximum of 160-MBps transfer speed per channel. And since it has two channels, the card could theoretically push 320 MBps - yes, that's megabytes per second ... read more at MacAddict

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SmartMedia to PC Card Adapter - Delkin

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USB BusPort - Belkin

This product -- a card that provides USB to Macs that lack it -- is beautiful in its simplicity: It installs in a PCI slot, such as those you'd find on the original Power Mac G3, or perhaps an older 9500. Slap this in your Mac and -- voila! -- you've got USB ... read more at macHOME

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CardBus to USB Adapter - MacAlly

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CBFW2 (CardBus FireWire adapter) - RATOC

When writing a 1GB QuickTime movie to a FireWire hard drive, the RATOC card was the speed champ, taking 3 minutes, 23 seconds compared with 3 minutes, 53 seconds for the Newer card. However, neither card could keep up with a FireWire-equipped blue-and-white Power Mac ... read more at Macworld

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FireWire 2 Go (CardBus FireWire adapter) - Newer Technology

The most-recent G3 PowerBooks lack FireWire, the high-speed serial protocol that is touted as superior to SCSI. So if you want to use FireWire peripherals with your PowerBook, you might look into Newer's FireWire 2 Go card. ... read more at macHOME

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Wired 4DVD - Wired

This card slips into any available PCI slot and enables your Mac to play DVD movies, with the help of a DVD-ROM drive, sold separately ... read more at MacAddict

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Stealth Serial Port - GeeThree.com

Gee Three's Stealth Serial Port is so damnably clever. It's a serial port that hides in your G3 tower's internal modem slot ... read more at macHOME

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4 Port USB PCI Card - Entrega

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USB Card - Keyspan

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TurboMax - ProMax Technology

The TurboMax/ATA-33 PCI card, combined with a pair of 16GB hard drives, gives you 32GB of storage for less than half the cost of a comparable SCSI setup ... read more at Macworld

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iPort - Griffin Technology

You know that mysterious rectangular door that lies beneath the USB ports on the original issue Bondi Blue iMacs? The iPort fills this space with two very useful ports that iMacs lack: a serial port and a monitor port. ... read more at macHOME

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Aurora Fuse -Aurora Design

The Macintosh platform's move to the PCI bus has inspired a number of PC hardware developers to bring their PCI-based capture cards to the Mac, resulting in several cross-platform but often mediocre video digitizing solutions. Aurora Design has bucked the cross-platform trend with the Aurora Fuse ... read more at MacAddict

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PowerDomain 294OU2W - Adaptec

This PCI board plugs into your Mac and adds Ultra2 SCSI capabilities. So what's the big deal about that? Plenty. The PowerDomain 2940U2W gives your Mac another SCSI bus capable of supporting up to 15 additional SCSI devices, and it handles a variety of SCSI protocols ... read more at MacAddict

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ixTV - IXMicro

TV on your desktop. Video and still capture work well. Includes external S-video and composite video capture. Tuner setup easy to do ... read more at MacAddict

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TurboTV - IXMICRO

Its TurboTV is a PCI card with video capture abilities and a 125-channel tuner. ... read more at MacAddict

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Xclaim TV - ATI Technologies

Xclaim TV brings television to your desktop. The newly redesigned purple pod, which resembles a spacecraft, houses an external TV tuner that you attach to ATI's Xclaim VR or a G3's optional AV card ... read more at MacAddict

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