Date   : Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:20:16 +0100
From   : pete@... (Pete Turnbull)
Subject: modern BBC remake

On 18/07/2007 13:30, Darren Grant wrote:
> 
> On 18/7/07 13:06, "Pete Turnbull" <pete@...> wrote:
> 
>> Eh?  We buy hundreds of PCs, and all the recent ones, across a range of
>> specs, have at least one and usually two or more PCI slots.  All the
>> laptops also have at least one slot.
> 
> I'm amazed you are still buying PC's with PCI slots in, surely not Intel
> core architecture machines? PCI and AGP have long been replaced by
> PCI-Express and that is fast becoming a slot for Graphics cards. Cardbus has
> now been replaced by Express Card

Most machines have both.  Yes, Intel.  And yes we do have a lot with 
PCI-express for graphics.

The last few laptops bought here have definitely worked with existing 
cards, and that didn't require any special checking to get older types.

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Pete                                           Peter Turnbull
                                               Network Manager
                                               University of York