On 1/10/06, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
>
Mini-PCI has been available for that long too.
