Thanks Sandy and Mark...I guess it'll be the MacBook and when things get crowded, I'll pull out my Thinkpad.
--- Markus Sandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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] > > Jimmy CraicHead TVVideo Podcast about Sailing, Travel, Cocktails and other good Craic!http://www.jchtv.com/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Shape Yahoo! in your own image. Join our Network Research Panel today! http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7
