One of my users, who has an IBM T21 (800 mhz, 10 GB drive, 256 MB RAM) Thinkpad notebook, is looking at a Firewire enabled scanner. The laptop does not have Firewire capability. There are add-on cards such as an Evergreen Cardbus Firewire PCMCIA type II card, which add this ability to the laptop. We are figuring that since Firewire is faster than USB, this might be a good plan. We still have not decided on which scanner yet, but I'd say we are looking at ones with moderate to high scanning ability, as opposed to one suitable for a home user. My question is: since Firewire is not native to the machine, is there a performance (througput) hit due to using the PCMCIA bus? Does anyone know if we will really see a difference here, versus USB? Thank you. Susan Sutherland The NOSPIN Group is now offering Free PC Tech support at our newest website: http://freepctech.com