Combo CardBus PC Card
The Combo CardBus card is a great way of adding more ports to your computer. By inserting the CardBus card into your PCMCIA slot of your laptop, you can instantly get 3 x USB2.0 and 2 x Firewire ports. Then, you can connect a whole range of peripherals to your computer.
Because the CardBus card is on another bus, you can also get better data transfer rates if you are copying data from one USB device to another, or one FireWire device to another. The on board USB or FireWire port does not have to do all the work if you had connected two devices to the one bus.
Speed aside, the Combo CardBus card provides a very practical way of adding life to an older laptop or notebook computer.