Just discovered today that my old T4's have autosensing NICs

[AGoodSolution]

Was scrounging around today for a small hub or switch to connect two laptops directly together in the field without the benefit of P2P/AdHoc WiFi or a LAN and switches.

I finally found a CrossXover junction box to cross polarize two straight through cables into a XOver to direct connect a T43 to an X41 before the neophyte staffer just pointed out she connects to her husband's Dell and ThinkPad X1 all the time with any network cable she can find.

Voila, based on her simple method, I realized my eight year old ThinkPad's have autosensing NIC's which automatically reverse polarity and tenaciously connect to whatever is on the other side.

that may seem like no big deal, but AutoSensing laptop NIC's are luxurious and especially considering on systems made back in 2004 !

Just another reason we keep buying ThinkPad's, when you need it to just work, you'll know where that money went.

[T400plus]

Err... You mean I can connect a straight cable between my 2 thinkpads(A T41 and a lenovo T400)!.
I have lots of those ready made commodity4-6 ft cables which connect our desktos to the lan boxes
fitted on the wall.

[Orclas]

Just another reason we keep buying ThinkPad's, when you need it to just work, you'll know where that money went.

At least as long as that neophyte is around