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The main thing I haven't liked about any of the older Omnibooks is the keyboards are terrible (too stiff, etc). They also tend to have nonstandard hardware (weird kbd controller etc.) that prevent running Linux. Cardbus is a hack that allows attaching what are basically full speed PCI devices using the PCMCIA socket. It can also support regular PCMCIA cards (which are a lot slower). Great stuff.