... please.

And I'll even tell you why:

1. Wireless LAN
Yes, you can use an airport at the ethernet port, but there are some disadvantages:
- The things are very expensive ($200-$500, depending on the manufacturer) while a PCMCIA WLAN card is between $70-$200.
- There are some systems that can't switch from "ad-hoc" to "infrastructure" autmatically,
so everytime my car moves out of the network the other systems have to be reconfigured :(
- In the town I live we have a quite good Aviator2.4 base network and with the PC in my trunk I can read my email in the whole town ... with an "airport" that's impossible, with an PCMCIA card it's easy going ...

2. Flash Memory
If you have a digicam with let's say 32MB flash ram, you could just put it into your empeg and store the pictures on the internal harddrive, freeing the ram for new pics.

3. Firewire
I could connect my camcorder direcetly to the empeg and download some movies.
I could even convert them to mpegs while driving.

4. SCSI adaptor
CD-Writer: Writing your videos to a CD in your car ?!
Scanner: Scanning the map that friendly stranger lend you ?
External Display: Yes, I think there are PCMCIA base VGA cards ...

5. Modem
Read your emails everywhere ?

There are millions of other uses ....
Yes, you could do some of that stuff with the USB port, but it's not that flexible.


AFAIK the SA1100 eval kit includes PCMCIA doesn't it ?

If it won't be supported by the empeg directly, why not make an external (Ethernet) Server with the PCMCIA slot ?
(You could even add NFS mounted harddisks as additional mp3 space :) )

Just an idea ..

But I don't want to replace 17 Aviators with 17 Wavelans and some airports ... that doesn't make sense ...

ciao
Anti