Smallest PC bluetooth card?

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Hello,

I am looking to add Bluetooth to my laptop and would like suggestions.

I want to be able to keep the Bluetooth card in the laptop at all times
without it protruding from the side.

I found one, Socket Compact Flash card with PC Card adapter, that looks
promising. See link below.

Anyone have any sucess with the Socket CF w/ PC Card adapter?

Are there any others brands out there that are flush to the side of a
laptop?

By the way I have an Acer TM800 laptop.

thanks!

Socket link:

http://www.socketcom.com/product/BL4517-386.asp

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Leto <Leto@leto.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am looking to add Bluetooth to my laptop and would like suggestions.
>
> I want to be able to keep the Bluetooth card in the laptop at all times
> without it protruding from the side.
>
> I found one, Socket Compact Flash card with PC Card adapter, that looks
> promising. See link below.
>
> Anyone have any sucess with the Socket CF w/ PC Card adapter?
>
> Are there any others brands out there that are flush to the side of a
> laptop?

That won't actually work.
While it may physically fit, the antenna pretty much has to stick out
when operating.
(alternatively, there may be some cards to which you could fit a

low-profile right-angle connector run to an antenna on top of the display.)

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