Re: modem on the new ibook2

[Mij <mijio@mac.com>]

vinai wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Robbie Pickering wrote:
>
> > did someone write that earlier ibook2s have a real modem in them
> > instead of the softmodem? if i didn't dream that, how can one tell?
>
> I think (and I have nothing to go on, except for my-own-you-should-not-
> trust-your-life-with-memory :) that the very first version of the ibook2
> (400 and 500 MHz G3 with a 66 MHz system bus) _DID_ have full hardware
> modems.  It was the revision after that (500 and 600 MHz, with a 100 MHz
> bus) in which Apple changed to the conexant "soft" modem.
>
> Can anyone confirm or refute this ?
The first ibook2 had serial buses, dedicated only to the (hard)modem. On 
the latest ibook2
they decided to remove serial buses for price reduction, and replaced 
the old serial modem
with a new usb-modem.

bye



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