On Jun 21, 2007, at 8:18 AM, Scott McNulty wrote: > It is generally a safe bet to assume that a plastic cased laptop (i.e. > the MacBook) will have better WiFi reception than one clad in metal > (i.e. the MacBook Pro). Luckily, Apple has come a long way from the > days of the Titanium PowerBooks, and the MacBook Pros get good WiFi > reception, but the MacBooks are slightly better (I have one of both, > so this is anecdotal).
fwiw, I have found metal cased, mac laptop wi-fi reception to be abysmal at conferences It's generally easy to pick up wi-fi until the room fills up; then everyone else has wi-fi except for the mac users. I can't help but wonder about a wi-fi implementation that has a menu option named "Use Interference Robustness" They ought to label it "No, please, I mean it, I really want to connect to something!" The good news is that the mac-heads tend to cluster near the wi-fi access points at conferences and quickly become friends :) markus -- http://tools.ourmedia.org/blog http://SpinXpress.com/Markus_Sandy http://Ourmedia.org/Markus_Sandy [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
