As laptops get smaller and smaller, the PC expansion card slot, which seemed plenty small when introduced, has become one of the obstacles to further shrinkage. No worries though, the PCMCIA trade group which established the PC card standard has finally formally introduced the ExpressCard standard, which will get the width of new expansion cards down to 34 millimeters, about three-fifths the size of today’s PC cards. The first laptops with ExpressCard slots should start showing up next year.
