You wanna enjoy the super high speeds of USB 3.0 but your computer is not ready yet. Instead of spending too much for a new PC system, you can now make use of a cheaper and quicker solution by making use of one of these Active Atomix SuperSpeed USB 3.0 adapters, to equip your computer with USB 3.0 ports.
The Active Atomix USB 3.0 adapters are available in two versions, which are the Atomix PX and Atomix EC. The Atomix PX comes in the form of a PCIe interface that can virtually fit into the PCIe slot of any desktop PC.
On the other hand, the Atomix EC is meant for laptops. It comes in the form of an Express Card interface that works on most laptops that have an Express Card slot. Both the Atomix PX and EC offer two USB 3.0 ports and are priced at $35 and $40 respectively.
After this upgrade, you’ll get to enjoy up to 4.8Gbps or 10 times of the transfer speeds of USB 2.0. And of course, they’re backwards compatible with USB 2.0 and they also come with supplemental power input jacks to support the power-hungry USB 3.0 devices.
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January 16th, 2010 at 7:41 am
omg such a relief I just got an alienware laptop for Xmas onl has 2.0 ports thanks for this xD
February 24th, 2010 at 8:26 am
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