Bill,

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:52:10 -0700, William \"Chops\" Westfield wrote:

>...
> I think it's a mistake to buy a very old laptop; so much other  technology
> has changed you'll probably end up missing something you forgot (USB2 for
> those lovely thumb drives and external disks? 

Ah yes, I'd forgotten about that little drawback of the ThinkPad T23 - it only has USB 1.1, and for external drives that's horribly slow (people tend 
not to believe that USB2 really is 40 times faster, so that a one minute job on USB2 takes three quarters of an hour on USB1.1!).  You can get USB2 
cards for the CardBus slots of course, but it's much less convenient as they always have a lump sticking out of the side of the machine.

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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