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    Infrared-Please help

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by faceman, Oct 11, 2007.

  1. faceman

    faceman Notebook Consultant

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    My laptop has an infrared port, but I can't seem to get it to work. I thought it might be disabled so I went to device manager, and I didn't see anything that said infrared. Can someone help. I'm running Windows Vista.
    Thanks.
     
    faceman, Oct 11, 2007
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    kowell Notebook Evangelist

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    Infrared ports are a dying technology. They were the "hot" new thing 5 years ago when a 64Mb memory stick cost 250$. Their transfer rate is deadly slow and it's not 100% stable. Using a 15$ 1Gb memory stick will be much more efficient.
     
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    faceman Notebook Consultant

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    That doesn't help. Does someone know how I can get the infrared working. I want to transfer pictures from my cell phone and it only has infrared to do that.
     
    faceman, Oct 11, 2007
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