5 Dec
2005
5 Dec
'05
6:52 a.m.
Witchy wrote:
On Fri, December 2, 2005 12:47 pm, Cini, Richard
said:
So do I, but my last laptop purchase was more influenced by
availability of all standard ports rather than graphics or even CPU
speed. I ended up buying a model that I'm sure is going to
be discontinued soon. But USB-based serial ports are unreliable
for me. I need to connect reliably to older development systems
as well (microcontroller, dsp, PLC, burners, lab instruments) and
cannot afford not to have a real serial port and a real parallel port.
Of course, the laptop I chose also has IR, Firewire, USB, bluetooth,
WiFi, LAN... it was the only Dell model that came standard with all
of that. Funny; I had zero flexibility once I decided that I wanted
all of those ports.
Carlos.
On my PC at home, although I have
"legacy" ports on my Shuttle XPC, I
don't
use them. I have a USB scanner and color printer. The laser printer is
attached to the network though a Netgear print server. The DV_cam connects
through FireWire and I use a card reader for the Memory Sticks from my
Sony camera.
Same here apart from the firewire stuff since I don't have
anything that
uses it.
I personally have not had a problem with USB but
maybe I'm not looking
hard
enough :-)
I love USB -