Annoying hardware: a rogues' gallery 
Published: 06 Jun 2008 17:35 BST
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If a washing machine manufacturer put the door on the back, they'd be shot by snipers. This simple observation continues to elude notebooks and desktop manufacturers, who take a satanic delight in finding the most inaccessible surface and populating it with important sockets. Then there's the 'lets cram everything so close together you'll need Boy George's lifetime supply of vaseline to plug things in' school of unusabilty. Chaps: open a notebook and look at it. There are acres of space staring you in the face where things can live.
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Styluses are even worse... PeterJudge -
And while we're talking about USB... PeterJudge
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Now I know I'm getting old Tezzer -
Annoying hardware: a rogues' gallery dwr50
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"Touchpads migrate to the side of the sc... openhgs
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Great rog.ersa
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Texas Heatwave hmph! Xwindowsjunkie
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For me the IDE cable is the one bigfootman
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re: bigfootman Tezzer
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Yus Phone companies annoy me.. CA
