Many PC cameras still connect via parallel ports, but USB is a rising trend, according to IDC.

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The smaller models of the Digital Studio series use a built-in graphics adapter in the Intel 810 chipset, the circuitry that is normally used to control other components of the motherboard such as the PCI bus, and the serial and parallel ports.

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It will be easier to add peripherals when PCs are free of internal slots and conventional serial and parallel external ports, Whalley adds.

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