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I like weird tech stuff, and I've got 10 laptops with free full/half-height mini PCIe slots. Frankly I just want some weird stuff to shove in some old laptops just so I can say I have it. Anyone have ideas?

Not looking for WWAN, WPAN, or mSATA cards, those are a bit too mainstream. I mean stuff like the laptop TV tuner from AVerMedia I have.

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Hardware video decoder

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2251832590626627.html?gatewayAdapt=glo2usa4itemAdapt&_randl_shipto=US

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcom_Crystal_HD

 

Just learned about these looking up stuff to put in a mini PCIe slot. I kinda wanna get one for my D620 now since I have an empty WWAN slot. 

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18 minutes ago, LloydLynx said:

Hardware video decoder

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2251832590626627.html?gatewayAdapt=glo2usa4itemAdapt&_randl_shipto=US

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcom_Crystal_HD

 

Just learned about these looking up stuff to put in a mini PCIe slot. I kinda wanna get one for my D620 now since I have an empty WWAN slot. 

Found one of those too. There's a higher end one that fits in a full height slot (and your Latitude's WWAN slot would be full height, as mine are) so that's probably the one I'll get

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Just now, da na said:

Found one of those too. There's a higher end one that fits in a full height slot (and your Latitude's WWAN slot would be full height, as mine are) so that's probably the one I'll get

This is a whole new world of hardware for me. Please, do share everything you know so I don't waste my money. 

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1 minute ago, LloydLynx said:

This is a whole new world of hardware for me. Please, do share everything you know so I don't waste my money. 

The one you posted supports a few more codecs that literally no one uses (DivX and Xvid) but does other codecs just the same. The 12 model is probably best for you since... well, natively full height but most importantly less than half the price.

BCM970012 BCM70012 HD Decoder AW-VD904 Mini PCIE Card for APPLE TV Netbooks | eBay

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