Hope this review helps someone trying to make a decision. A USB 2 thumb drive and perhaps the occasional USB 2 Flash card reader will probably be the only USB 2 devices my Pismo will use. I guess that's because I own older PowerPC Macs. Most of my external devices are FireWire or USB 1. Unlike a lot of people I don't have many USB 2 devices. The bigger cards provide as many as four ports, but those big cards stick way out of the cardbus slot. The casual observer won't even notice it, or feel it for that matter. This is an elegant and unobtrusive USB 2 solution worthy of a beautiful old PowerBook. The face of the card fits flush against the side of the Pismo and the color matches like they were made for each other. The card is completely internal, with no protrusion from the side of the Pismo at all. The USB 2 card moves the same exact data almost 10 times as fast, so it's safe to say it is working at USB 2 speed. I moved files from the thumb drive to the internal hard drive through the USB 2 card, then through the built in USB 1 port on the back of the Pismo. I'm not using the little USB power cord that came with the card and yet the card is supplying enough bus power just through the PCMCIA slot to power a USB Bluetooth dongle and a USB 2 thumb drive simultaneously. It does work in my Pismo PowerBook running OS 10.4.11 with all current updates. The AKE BC168 cardbus showed up in today's mail.
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