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

[Massimo Marino]

Hi Mike,

sorry but I do not see the point. I said: you have to change card. The 
fact that in the PowerBook the card comes pre-installed does not change 
the equation: I do not need to change the motherboard: I have to change 
the card. The problem I think relies on the antenna: the one in the 
Airport card is not enough for Airport Extreme, hence no simple swap 
Airport card. Use an external one.

I do not think - but I accept to be corrected in that - you may tell 
centrino - maybe - not to use its built-in the chip wireless. Does 
Intel states explicitly that I could have that chip functioning the 
same and providing the same services which are provided by this 
technology with an external card after I told the system to disallow 
its built-in device?

If the Intel-ligent thing is not to have to use a wireless card at all 
(Airport, Lucent, etc,) then I do not see the point in all the buzz and 
fuss around centrino.

I might be wrong but I do not see it as *just* a wireless card 
integration. Intel plans to build services around that wireless-chip. I 
do not think a regular Dell laptop would access those same services 
with a regular wireless card.

	Massimo

On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 01:37 PM, PowerBook G4 Titanium List 
wrote:

> Message-ID: <004301c2e95c$40a4f250$6801a8c0 at castor>
> From: "Mike Stanley" <macguy at guarded-inn.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ti] What is this going to do to Apple, and its laptops?
> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 07:29:54 -0500
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Massimo Marino" <Massimo_Marino at lbl.gov>
> To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium List" <Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 2:27 AM
> Subject: Re: [Ti] What is this going to do to Apple, and its laptops?
>
>
>> Well, there will be a difference. Apple updated its wireless line with
>> Airport Extreme (802.11g). Do you need to change the laptop? nope,
>> change the card and use the new standard. You are now instead a
>> centrino user. In a couple of years a new standard comes out for
>> wireless which allows you to get more (speed, bandwidth, whatever): do
>> you change card? Nope, you have to change laptop.
>
> Uh, you might want to recheck that.  If I want an Apple-provided 
> 802.11g
> solution I *will* have to change laptops, as they've clearly stated 
> that
> there will be no Airport Extreme upgrades for older TiBooks.
>
> So if I want 802.11g I can go with a 3rd party PC Card - which is 
> exactly
> what you'd end up doing with one of these Centrino machines.  No 
> difference
> whatsoever.