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How long more until we started to see WiFi built into laptops?

I thought there already were some getting shipped with built in wifi???
One of the guys I work with was going to buy one from CC for around $2000
 
As far as I know, some of the IBM Thinkpads have it. For sure the newer T23 has them.
 
Hey nocturnal time to change your name to Rip Van Winkle (or Vanilla Ice) since you've been asleep for at least the last year. FYI it's now 2003.
 
Right now, there's Centrino, and to a lesser extent, the Apple stuff(still a seperate card, but sits inside the computer). If you're talking about built-in in the sense that IDE, audio, graphics, and other things were built in, then keep on waiting. We're just now seeing wired NICs being built in, so Wi-Fi is a ways off.
 
I'm surfing on it right now. It came with my Mac TiBook. (The antennae are built into the case.)

Have you been living under a rock?
 
Originally posted by: minendo
Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
Gateway laptops have had builtin wifi for quite awhile. You need to wake up, dood.
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d00d what is wifi?


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Check this link out for an explanation of wifi:



Wi-Fi

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wifi, Wi-Fi is Wireless Fidelity (IEEE 802.11x wireless networking) I should have specified that some of GW's notebooks have builtin wireless networking capabilities. It is actually a plug-in card and not incorporated into the mainboard, if I recall correctly.
 
My HP laptop is about 2 months old and has built in wireless. Works great with my $20 Belkin wireless router! 🙂
 
Depends on how you mean "built-in". I don't know of any laptops that have it integrated into the chipset... but SEVERAL (including the Dell i600m I'm posting on) have a card in the INTERNAL mini-PCI slot (with the antenna integrated into the chassis). So, yes, I don't have a card hanging out of my PCMCIA slot, but it is removable, or someone without one could add one (if they have a mini-PCI slot). 🙂
 
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