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Why would anyone, like Belkin here with this device, make something for a Mac when apple only has 3-4% of the worldwide operating system market share? Last time I checked companies were in business to make money, and the idea of "Gee let's make something that not many people will buy" doesn't jive.]]>Oct 11th 2006 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/belkin-unveils-expresscard-notebook-expansion-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/belkin-unveils-expresscard-notebook-expansion-dock/Oct 12th 2006 5:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/belkin-unveils-expresscard-notebook-expansion-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/belkin-unveils-expresscard-notebook-expansion-dock/


So, 2-2.5 percent total global marketshare, similar desktop/notebook ratio as the wintel world. Assuming Macbook make up two thirds of total sales. Leaving ~0.5-1 percent marketshare to Macbook Pro.

In light of this, I fully understand Belkins decision.

As a sidenote, this also showes that Expresscard, while being almost twice as fast as Cardbus, is already lacking in bandwidth. They should have made it at least PCIe 2x, or preferably 4x. A 4x is by the way almost sufficent to saturate a GPU like a Geforce 6800GT with very little performance penalty.

Cardbus was introduced almost ten years ago, when pentium a II 300 was considered high-end. Todays computers are at least a magnitud of scale faster.

What is nice about PCIe although, is that it should be possible to add lines or increase transfer rate without breaking backward compatibility.]]>Oct 16th 2006 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/belkin-unveils-expresscard-notebook-expansion-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/belkin-unveils-expresscard-notebook-expansion-dock/
Even though Macbooks were the first to have the expresscard and even though currently there is no kind of docking stations for macs (even though there are a TON for PC).

A lot of Mac users use their laptops as desktops too since they are so powerful (for video, pictures, extensive graphics...). Belkin says their working on one to be compatible with Mac as well, but that's just a might...in the future.

We may be a small number, but I run my office with macs and have one at home - my husband is in the IT field working with PC's all day. After working with a Mac, he said he will never buy a PC for himself ever again. Macs are just that much better.]]>Oct 26th 2006 9:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/belkin-unveils-expresscard-notebook-expansion-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/belkin-unveils-expresscard-notebook-expansion-dock/Aug 30th 2007 9:04PM