by Brad S | Apr 15, 2011
CFast slot on the HP EliteBook 8560w
Closeup of the CFast slot on EliteBook 8560w
EliteBook 8460w, 8560w and 8760w 'family photo' (click for larger)
HP EliteBook 8560w has a CFast (Compact Flash) card slot,
Windows 7 Activation Key!
I’ve looked over the EliteBook press photos before and I remember seeing something interesting,
Microsoft Office 2010 Professional, but we got too caught up in covering their release in the news that I almost forgot all about it. So here’s the scoop: there’s this slot on the front of the newly released EliteBook 8560w that looks suspiciously like a Compact Flash card slot. And upon close inspection,
Genuine Windows 7, there’s a line above it that reads “CFast”. This is big news here! CFast is a new variant of the Compact Flash standard. And if camera models come out supporting the format one day,
Office 2010 Serial, the EliteBook 8560w will be a professional photographer’s dream! Unless the people who designed the EliteBook 8560w know something that we don’t… maybe they’ve heard something from Canon or Nikon and CFast cards?
Either way, the EliteBook 8560w is the first ever mainstream device (and first and only notebook right now) to have a CFast card slot, and I think there may be one reason or another behind this seemingly random appearance of the slot.
The difference between CFast and Compact Flash, however, is the former uses a SATA interface, which enables CFast cards to reach a theoretical top speed of 300 MB per second, while traditional Compact Flash cards max out at 133 MB/s.
Don’t go jumping around in joy and run into the store to buy a Canon EOS 1D Mark IV or Nikon D3s and a bunch of Compact Flash cards just yet though! CFast cards use different pins and interface connectors, and are slightly thicker in size too I believe (Think the old Type II Compact Flash cards),
Microsoft Office Professional Plus, versus Compact Flash counterparts. And so far, no mainstream devices or cameras use CFast cards, but could the EliteBook 8560w be a hint of things to come? Is there a future Canon or Nikon professional SLR or medium-format camera out there being tested in the field, and HP wants to be ready for ‘the future’?
It is also kind of strange that the EliteBook 8560w is the only one out of the three which sports a CFast slot in press photos, and the CFast slot appears in all standalone press images of the 8560w but slot disappears all together on all three models in the ‘family photo’ of the EliteBooks above.
Windows 7 Activation Key HP EliteBook 8560w has a
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