On 21 Dec 2006 15:39:32 -0800, "Dan Lenski"
<dlenski@gmail.com> wrote:


>Good to know, thanks! It's strange because many PCI cards are shallow
>enough to fit this form factor easily. It's too bad that such cards
>don't come with replacement brackets, it's just a 10-cent piece of
>sheet metal basically.

Yes, but there are SO MANY different product flaws that 10
cents would solve, it's not surprising they're too cheap to
include 2 brackets.




>
>I searched for low-profile PCI cards and it seems like some of them are
>labeled as such based on the depth of the *card* and NOT the dimensions
>of the bracket... for instance this one here:
>http://www.acortech.com/AOpen_FM56-S...d-3204184.html
> It's clear from the relative lengths of the pins and the bracket that
>the bracket is about 120 mm... so it's clearly not a low-profile
>bracket. Is this a term that's abused a lot?


Unfortunately yes, it seems that somehow marketing
departments saw short cards called low profile and they
didn't "get it", what the point of it was... that it has to
have the bracket or it's pointless unless the buyer wants
to, is willing to do what you did to shorten it. I've had
to shorten a few brackets before too, and on one I didn't
want to destroy the original bracket yet because I suspected
the card I was trying to use might not "cut it", was a
wireless card in a system pretty far away from an access
point. I just too a piece of sheet aluminum and cut it to
size, but that was easier because being a NIC, it only
needed a couple small circular holes for the R-SMA jack and
an LED.