This USB3 controller card is actually THE product to buy if you want the USB3 on his laptop and wants that for his money. After installing the driver supplied on CD, this card is very well recognized and even works well with an external DD! The only downside is having to use a USB2 port for power, but who cares? I climbed over a 70MB / s on my external HD, which is the upper limit of the hard drive. So yes, it works!
