Re: What is the Phone Plug for...???

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:23:36 -0500, Barry Margolin wrote
(in article <barmar-3C873C.21233628042008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

[continuing in this thread about Macs with phone jacks and the need for an
external modem]

OK, how about this: are there any Mac models that have something that
looks like a phone jack next to the power cord connector?

That I cannot say. There may be some or there may not.

My guess is he's looking at something like a MacBook, where the MagSafe
connector and Ethernet port are next to each other. On my older Mac, an
iBook G4, the power plug is on the opposite side from all the other
connectors, and I think this is how most of the older laptops have been
arranged. I don't recall the connector arrangements on most desktop
Macs, but most of the ones I remember don't have the power plug near
most of the other connectors.

I believe the PowerBooks which were discontinued in mid 2006 were the last
Mac laptops to include a built in modem and which could send and receive
faxes with a direct hookup to a phone line. I had one of them, a 17" model,
but I honestly cannot remember the placement of the various ports. My current
MacBook Pro has two USB ports adjacent to the MagSafe connector.

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