Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
On Jan 10, 2006, at 5:34 PM, Perry Pellechia wrote:
What differs between fitting a wireless card in the PC Card slot and
the way Apple designed wireless into their laptop systems is that a)
when you are equipped with Airport you still have a PC Card slot to
use for other things (on systems that offer a PC Card slot), and b)
the integrated antennae are generally better for reception than the
antenna in a one-piece card, and you don't have that antenna
vulnerably hanging out of the side of your laptop.
This is what a mini-pci port is for. All recent windows based
notebooks come with them. They also provide connection to an internal
antenna. Most notebooks with built-in wireless actually use a
mini-pci port.
Yup. Same idea, five/six years later...
Apple's built "wireless ready" systems like this since 1999/2000.
Godfrey
Well, in their defense, what Apple did with the Airport cards was simply
put an internal PCMCIA slot with an internal connector. Airport Extreme
is Mini-PCI IIRC.
-Adam
