Intel MacBook Pro and uncompressed video. Does it work???

I'm about to buy a 2nd edit system (currently running dual G5, AJA IO, with FCP 5 and, 3TB of SATA uncompressed storage) I need this next system to be mobile but still do uncompressed video. I see that you can use the AJA IO with the old MacBooks but you need a PCMCIA FW card with dual FW800 drives raided together to do 10bit uncompressed off of Digi Bet or Beta SP. Id there a pcmcia card slot on the new intel macbooks? Is anyone running this setup with success? I need to buy this thin ASAP and have it running soon. Any ideas?

MacBook Pros do not have CardBus slots or PCMCIA Type II. They do have one ExpressCard/34 slot which is, I believe, becoming the new industry standard. Well, ExpressCard is, anyway. It's simply a higher bandwidth expansion card format that uses the PCI Express bus or USB 2.0 for connectivity. It's important to note that the MacBook Pro uses the 34mm form factor (there is also a 54mm form factor). You'll probably have to wait for the hardware you have to support ExpressCard/34.

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