Does a Dell Inspiron 1000 have USB 2.0 ports ?
I have been trying to sort out a laptop for my 9 year old daughter so she can just surf the net – club penguin and all the other ‘harmless’ sites. I do have an old toshiba sp4600 but couldnt get it to connect to my wireless router as the wireless adapter I got for the laptop insists on USB 2.0 and nothing less whereas I think this laptop only has USB 1.1 (12 Mb per sec as opposed to 460 Mb per sec for the USB 2.0). I tried to install a USB card bus with USB 2.0 capability (but it wouldnt even install the software !). Anyway I managed to get a cheap 2nd hand DELL Inspiron 1000 off Ebay and just wondered if it is likely to have USB 2.0 (for the Wireless adapter). I did a google but couldnt find anything. I didnt have time to contact the vendor as the auction had only minutes to go and looked like a reasonable deal ( comes with Win XP re-installed and MS Office ) and just a very basic package, which is obviously what I was after. If anyone owns one or knows, I would be pleased to hear. thanks. Dean.