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

[Massimo Marino]

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.

Although the idea might seem Intel-ligent, centrino has the technology  
hardwired in the chip: you can't upgrade but changing mother board.  
 From the customer perspective I'd see reasons to worry my hardware  
could become obsolete or unable to use new services in the future by  
design.

Massimo

On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 11:52 PM, PowerBook G4 Titanium List  
wrote:

> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:31:51 -0600
> From: Dennis Fazio <dfz at mac.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ti] What is this going to do to Apple, and its laptops?
> Message-ID: <2147483647.1047483111@[10.31.255.20]>
>
> --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.
>
> --
> Dennis Fazio
> dfz at mac.com