Okay, so I asked the original question in this thread -- and thank you all
for your answers -- and now I have a follow up, the $64K question if you
will ...
I found a cheap USB to Serial adaptor for sale on ebay ... The thinking is
I can hook it up to my G4, hence giving it a serial port, and then run an
appletalk cable from the G4's "Serial" port to the serial modem/printer
port on the Duo 230 ... Will this work for file sharing? Has anyone tried
it? Please say yes so I can buy it and back my files up :-) Outside of
that, I'm also looking at an AsanteTalk Ether Print adaptor box to do
bascially the same thing via Ethernet, which seems a safer bet
Many Thanks in Advance
And in an off-topic $.02 worth, I'm with everyone who's waiting for a
subnotebook g4 ... I was on the verge of (gasp) buying a VAIO SR-7K for
$1600 b/c it's tiny, superlight, and has firewire and ethernet built-in (I
think eNet was built-in ... if not, just a PC card away) ... of course,
being broke and really only needing to word process away from home right
now, the duo seemed a better option
The G4 Titanium, from what I've seen online and heard from a friend who
played with one at MacWorld, is a beauty ... But for me, a person who uses
his Mac to write, edit video, access the Net and do some front-end
development here and there ... and someone who travels by foot and subway
far more than by plane, the combination of horsepower and (lack of) size
and weight afforded by the VAIO is far more appealing than built-in DVD-ROM
or an extra-wide 15" screen ... Again, all accounts say that the screen is
to die for, and with it's "5 hour battery," I may give in to Titani-Lust
when I finally see one in person ... But in my bag along with the other
things I haul around when I work away from home, even my Duo 230 would be
great if it was lighter ... So why not give us a 3 lb, 400-500 mhz G4 "duo"
with a 12" screen, 10-20 gb hd, firewire/usb, killer battery and ethernet
for $1999? And make the optional external CD-RW and DVD-ROM (or even the
"SuperDrive") overpriced add-ons for those who want 'em? Or even make this
Titanium Duo ("CubeBook") a slightly slower G4 or 500 mhz G3, for that
matter, if it eases those weary marketing folks' brains?
MacWorld Tokyo? A pipe dream, I know ...
best
nk
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