'Taint gonna happen get a hub.
I know it won’t happen, but the USB spec says it works, Mac users can daisy chain till the cows come home.
The problem is, I have to get a second hub now, dammit! What with my printer, joystick, scanner, mouse, lego camera, palm conduit, I am already hotswapping the joystick and camera. Ugh.
I’ve been hot-swapping USB stuff with my Mac for years, and never had a lockup or any other snafu. Hell, my three-year-old hotswaps stuff, and my only concern is when he tries to force a plug in the wrong way.
(Gateway? Ain’t that the company whose CEO consults cows for advice? 
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For your information the brand new IBM Thinkpads we are now being issued (many thousands of them) have no PS/2 ports either. Everything is USB. Which is fine if you want to spend additional $'s buying USB keyboards, but as we have many thousand of PS/2 keyboards, doesn’t make sense.
Umm, so isn’t there a $23 USB-to-PS/2 adapter the way there exists a USB-to-ADB adapter for us Mac folks?
Really? What model are you guys buying? I’ve deployed a few T30s but we use port replicators here and they two PS/2 ports. Admittedly, I didn’t look at the back of the machine.
I have two comments…
For my home machine, I have a Gateway box, and I purchased another Gateway for my son when he went off to college three years ago. They’ve performed fine for three years, with the exception of the CD-burner failing on both machines. My daughter is heading off to college this August and I’m debating between a Dell and a Gateway, only because I’ve heard of other Gateway horror stories and because Consumer Reports rates Dell the highest in consumer satisfaction and quality.
The second comment is that the IS department at my company reports to me, and all the laptops we’ve been purchasing for the last 6 months (we have a Compaq standard) have only come with USB ports. At first it was a problem because we weren’t buying new keyboards or mice. Silly us. We just assumed there would be PS/2 ports. Now we buy new mice (and new keyboards too if necessary).