These modems would often slot into a Mini PCI-e slot in the netbook motherboard. [delokaver] figured out how to use these 3G cards over USB instead. It’s actually a fairly straightforward hack.

Description: (POS) Automated Retail Kiosks Embedded Systems Traffic Systems Factory Automation and Process Control Retail Hospitality Gaming Kiosks Features PCI Express Mini Card (mPCIe) type F1, with ...

There’s also four mini-PCI-E slots along the top, with four M.2 E-key slots hiding underneath. The board then has a M.2 slot in the middle for NVME drives, and x1 PCI-E slot hanging off the side.

motherboards had at least one PCIe slot for graphics. PCIe superseded PCI and PCI-X. Unlike its PCI predecessor, which used a shared bus, PCI Express is a switched architecture of up to 32 ...