>> > All these laptops have built in modems too. >> > >> But beware, some are winmodems. > >Not all of them ? > Possibly true, I haven't been shopping for a laptop for a long time though I thought that some Sonys and possibly some Dells had non-winmodems. Perhaps better advice would be to watch out that the particular (win)modem is supported for linux. I have a couple of thinkpads with Lucent modems and never did get them running but then again I didn't try to hard since a PCMCIA modem was not expensive and worked out of the box.
Michael
