do any new laptops still have serial ports

[Boonesmi]

as the title says... do any of the new laptops have serial ports (ie. the old 9pin com port)

 

[addragyn]

Might just be easier to grab a USB> serial adapter.

 

[icywindow]

Yes with a clarifier.

You need the docking station to get serial ports. Or you could do the usb to serial thing that was suggested earlier.

 

[John]

Originally posted by: icywindow
Yes with a clarifier.

You need the docking station to get serial ports. Or you could do the usb to serial thing that was suggested earlier.

There are still plenty of notebooks that come with a 9 pin male serial port.

Sager Notebooks

There are others but I'm too tired to look for them.

 

[AT]

Originally posted by: Boonesmi
as the title says... do any of the new laptops have serial ports (ie. the old 9pin com port)

My week old Dell Inspiron 510m has one serial port. I'm sure many other Dell models have one too.

 

[InlineFive]

My Dell Latitude C600 has one.

 

[John]

Originally posted by: PorBleemo
My Dell Latitude C600 has one.

He said new.

 

[shiftomnimega]

my compaq presario 2175US does.

I think it's pretty new... I just got it in August...

 

[WackyDan]

Originally posted by: shiftomnimega
my compaq presario 2175US does.

I think it's pretty new... I just got it in August...

August??? That means they don't sell it anymore!! LOL

I know one of the new Dells still has one. None of the IBM's have one built on though if you take an x31 or x40 and add the ultrabase (still portable), then you can have a NATIVE serial port on the x's.

 

[zixxer]

Originally posted by: WackyDan

Originally posted by: shiftomnimega
my compaq presario 2175US does.

I think it's pretty new... I just got it in August...

August??? That means they don't sell it anymore!! LOL

I know one of the new Dells still has one. None of the IBM's have one built on though if you take an x31 or x40 and add the ultrabase (still portable), then you can have a NATIVE serial port on the x's.

dell's inspiron 1100, 51XX don't. IIRC anything higher than that does.

 

[Abhi]

Dell Inspiron 8600 has a serial port. (9-pin serial connector)

 

[Abhi]

 

[ElFenix]

600m has one. i'd rather have firewire

 

[SilentZero]

Not many are coming included with them now days. Theres only a few and I believe compaq and HP both have 1 or 2 models that still have them included.

 

[Boonesmi]

all the ones i saw locally didnt have one

but i ended up getting the emachines athlon64 notebook, and ill just use a usb to serial port adapter

 

[Snuffaluffaguss]

should have got a dell.

 

[Boonesmi]

Originally posted by: Snuffaluffaguss
should have got a dell.

why?
i dont like dell the company, and i dont like dell pc's

 

[redbeard1]

You would be suprised how many business's need a serial port on a laptop to work with specialized equipment in the field. We had a customer come to us in shock when he received his new work laptop and it didn't have the serial port. His device would work with a special usb converter from the meter company luckily. Other devices won't. Without a serial port how do you pre-configure or interface with smart network devices like cisco routers and superstack switches without web interfaces or when there is no web access for the ones you can configure that way.

 

[spanner]

serial porst are still very much needed. Usb to serial adaptors have latency issues which crop up every so often when trying to do real time communication.

 

[moparmaga]

Most HP Pavilions have a serial port, as of 3 months ago when i bought mine.