[OT] Looking for a notebook

[Joe Tseng]

Awesome!!!  The 520, 630 and 830 all have serial ports.  I'm a happier 
camper today.  :)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott van Looy" <scott at ethosuk.org.uk>
To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at 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 at 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