Laptops with serial ports

[Keith Watson]

Tom,

I just bought a Dell D400 that has a serial port. I will list 
here the pros and cons of the system as I have found them.

 The system has a 1.8 Pentium-M processor, it came with 256M ram 
but I upgraded to 768 by adding a 512M module.  It has a 60G HD, 
1 serial port, 1 actual usb and a special dell usb port which has 
power for the external devices, such as the Cd-ROM. The monitor is 
12.1 inches and it's only 3.7 pounds.
The pcmcia is only a type 1, which means that it only takes the 
thin cards and not the thicker type.

The audio chip is an Intel and uses the i8x module under Linux. 
This means that you are going to have to live with single channel 
or semi-multi channel using the aoss stuff.

The modem is a win modem and according to the skuttle butt on the 
web is supported after a fashion, but you have to pay 20 bucks 
for the driver. I forget the name of the project, but a quick 
google could find it.

The Intel wireless B/G is supported by a module which is not yet 
in the kernel, so you will have to rebuild it for each new kernel 
you cook.

All in all this little speed deamon meets all my wants and needs. 
I love the size and weight and would recommend a refurb from dell 
if you are looking. They start at 1700 standard, but I got this 
little baby for 899 off of their refurb site. And it even came 
with a 1 year warranty.

Luck in your search,

Keith

On 07:57 AM, Tom Moore wrote:
> Morning guys,
> I'm in the market for a new laptop and I know this will be hard to find, but are there any laptops out there you guys have experience with or know of that come with a serial port?
> I'd rather not have to use software speech on a lptop unless I have too.
> Also this makes it a bit hard to do n install with out speech as well if I'm not able to get a serial port.
> Thanks for any help you may be able to offer.
> 
> Tom
> 
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