23 Oct
2007
23 Oct
'07
2:11 a.m.
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Pros. PC-type laptops made in the past two years
aren't coming with
parallel ports, and rack-mount x86 hardware made in the past, what, 5?
Well if you buy those cheap 500 EUR laptops then maybe you don't get
neither a parallel nor a serial port. But good business notebooks (like
the HP/Compaq NC6320 bought last year) have both (that was BTW the reason
why I had chosen this model over e.g. a Thinkpad).
So far, most PC desktops still come with a DB25
parallel port, but I
think even that's no longer universal.
YGWYPF.
On the other hand the ExSys cards (or other cards with e.g. ax OX16PCI954)
are really nice (four serial plus one parallel). As nearly everything is
integrated on board today, such cards will finally render the mostly
useless slots useful again.
Christian