On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 19:39 +0000, Ian bell wrote:
This is a very rapidly changing area. I bought a laptop for my wife just over a year ago. it had built in modem and a built-in wireles card but no serial port. I suspect this year the modem is/will be dropped.
We are still seeing built in modems on nearly all Laptops we sell, however they are now quite rare as a standard fit on Desktop systems.
I don't think it will be long now though. Macbooks already come minus a Modem. I think the only real reason they are there still is that they cost virtually nothing to add and take up very little space.
Sysadmin/network engineer types are still mourning the loss of the serial port on most laptops, only a few (usually quite expensive) models still come with one of those.