Laptop with Serial (RS232) port

[Yabby]

I know this is a long shot, been looking for a while for a new laptop with a serial port. Everywhere i see people just keep telling me you have to find an old laptop because they just don't make them anymore. The USB >> Serial converts are just not working with this old bell system i have to configure (Tried the serial convert and it wiped about half of the database out, was not happy).

At the moment i'm dragging around a desktop system site to site to do this. Anyone know anywhere i can get one? Have one custom made? Anything, please god anything.

[Sonomaa]

there are no laptops that come with them anymore tbh that arent made specifically for government use, I know, I have customers who request them from me all the time. best bet is a docking station, a lot of them have serial ports on them if the laptop has a docking port (meaning its not a USB to serial adapter)
otherwise it sucks but an old bitch laptop from late pentium to very early core2duo will have a serial port on it, they stopped midway through the core2 line

[Mugekuge]

http://www.panasonic.com/business/to...ghbook-52.asp#

I5 model


http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-...k.42583.0.html

I5 model too

[Mugekuge]

http://www.techforless.com/cgi-bin/t...20120913141850

452$

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...&condition=all

Different prices

Edit: actually those ones in amazon are with core2duo processor, shit got me confused since panasonic website says 52 is a I5 processor.

[Yabby]

there are no laptops that come with them anymore tbh that arent made specifically for government use, I know, I have customers who request them from me all the time. best bet is a docking station, a lot of them have serial ports on them if the laptop has a docking port (meaning its not a USB to serial adapter)
otherwise it sucks but an old bitch laptop from late pentium to very early core2duo will have a serial port on it, they stopped midway through the core2 line

Yea i was looking into these, hard part is most of it is sold on ebay style sites. I work for a school and there is so much fucking redtape when it comes to ordering making it hard to get stuff from those sites (After a few high ranking members taking advantage of the system they stopped allowing reimbursement from sites like this.)

Edit: It just hit me that we have a few laptops with docking station collecting dust at one of our server sites..... i need to go check those out and see if they have serial and work with this old ass software i have to use, thanks for the idea.

http://www.panasonic.com/business/to...ghbook-52.asp#

I5 model


http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-...k.42583.0.html

I5 model too

Thank you so much, if i can get them to take PO's i will be golden.

[Niya]

Some of the business laptop series from Fujitsu (at least the ones from 2011) like the Lifebook S751/E751 still have serial ports. Just don't know if/where they are available in the US.

[SephYuyX]

PCMCIA (or what ever port your laptop has) to Serial.
I use it for Cisco stuff and works fine.