Lack of a built in modem (was: Re: [Ti] Great day for you Intel fans!)

[Ardeshir Mehta]

On 12-Jan-06, at 11:14 AM, Mikael Byström wrote:

> Ardeshir Mehta said:
>
>>>> More interesting is the lack of a built in modem!
>>>
>>> But Apple offers an Apple USB modem for it.
>>
>> Yes, but that still means that if you want to send faxes right out  
>> of the machine you have to buy something extra do so - no?
>
> Or use a fax gateway server.
>
> I think it's a little but shortsighted not to offer an internal  
> modem at an extra cost, but maybe it was costprohibitive to design  
> for it?

Surely modems these days are tiny, and far from expensive ... eh?

> It's a bit stupid though not even be able to call in when you're in  
> a third world country or somewhere similar.

Yes, good point.


Cheers.












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