So after a month of waiting and hoping and begging I finally got my PC Express parallel port in UPS today. My new Dell notebook came without one as most notebooks are want to do these days. This left me in a bit of a bind as some of the older copiers I work on require a parallel port interface to update the software. Until now I had to carry two laptops with me, an old one with a parallel port and my new one which doesn’t look or perform like shit.

I’ve waited about a month for this card to come in. The release date got pushed back three times by the manufacturer Quatech. There products are rock solid but their release schedule leaves something to be desired. None of this would have even happened if somebody hadn’t had the bright idea to change the mobile expansion card standard when I wasn’t looking. Granted, the card is smaller which I like but I would have liked some hardware support for it before every bit of gear that I buy had the new standard.