On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 16:13 -0500, Joe Tseng wrote:
Awesome!!! The 520, 630 and 830 all have serial ports. I'm a
happier
camper today. :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott van Looy" <scott(a)ethosuk.org.uk>
To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] Looking for a notebook
> Today William Hooper did spake thusly:
>
>> On 11/6/07, Joe Tseng <joe_tseng(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> I've been asked to look for notebooks for my office that have built-in
>>> serial ports. We've already used USB-to-serial adapters and port
>>> multipliers with mixed success; we are kind of leery of using PCMCIA
>>> serial
>>> ports. And we'd like to use these notebooks on the go so docks are out
>>> of
>>> the question. Can I get the big OEMs to sell me a few of these or am I
>>> out
>>> of luck with them?
>>
>> Some of Dell's Latitude line still have them. I've got a D820 here
>> with one, I believe the D830 (current model) still has one. According
>> to
emperorlinux.com the D520 and D630 have them also.
>
> My D620 has one too
Dell Precision M65 has one.
- Brian