[Ti] What is this going to do to Apple, and its laptops?

[Dennis Fazio]

--On Wednesday, March 12, 2003 02:38 PM -0500 NaegeleWDC at aol.com wrote:

> Is this going to consign Apple to an even smaller piece of the pie?
>
> See http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2003-03-12-centrino-launch_x.htm

Why would that be an issue? It's just putting WIFI chips on PC motherboards instead of PC Card inserts. It will do nothing except increase the number of wireless-capable portables. PowerBooks with built-in Airport have no advantage or disadvantage in this environment now and that won't be any different after the new Intel motherboards proliferate. What it will likely do is set Airport cards as standard in ALL iBooks and PowerBooks, but Apple probably had that in their plans already anyway.

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Dennis Fazio
dfz at mac.com