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2009-06-26 , 10:03
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Originally Posted by attila77 View Post
The inside is pretty spacious so if you can find a flat-enough non-powered hub, you might use that to get internal usb ports... What I'm more concerned about is power management. USB devices are not that easy sometimes to completely turn off and usually does unnecessary power conversions as well (as everything has to work from 5v).

Or you could try to get an internal USB dongle that has linux drivers, and does both Wifi and bluetooth (assuming you care about bluetooth ... I don't ... nor do I care about GPS).

I could easily make do with either:
Wifi, keyboard, storage, (other) (3G via a Mifi maybe)
or
3G, keyboard, storage, (other)

And if I don't come up with another USB device to put in there, I could do:
Wifi, keyboard, storage, 3G

(though, honestly, I'm probably going to get a Mifi)

On the other hand, T-Mobile-USA even has a combined wifi and 3G dongle (but I don't know if it has linux drivers). With a combined wifi/3G dongle, you could even do:
Wifi+3G, keyboard, storage, (other)
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