A display latch and an IrDA port are located on the front panel of the HP Compaq notebook. The following things are located on the notebook?s left panel:
- A Kensington lock;
- An RJ-45 network connector;
- An RJ-11 modem connector;
- An S-Video output;
- A FireWire port;
- One USB port;
- A PC Card slot for two cards of type I or II;
- A smart-card reader;
- A SecureDigital card-reader;
- And vent holes.
The right panel of this notebook carries the following:
- A serial port;
- An optical DVD/CD-RW drive (the eject button isn?t very handy ?it is closer to the rear panel of the notebook and is too deeply sunken into the surface);
- Two USB ports;
- A microphone input;
- A hole of the integrated microphone (which is very sensitive, by the way);
- A line audio output.
At the rear panel there are:
- A D-Sub connector for an external monitor
- A power connector
At the bottom of the HP Compaq nx8220 you can see the cover of the memory and hard drive cells, a battery cell, a connector for an additional accumulator, a connector for a dock station or port-replicator, a visiting-card holder, and vent holes.
The following table compares the communicational capabilities of the two notebooks:
