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

[Nocturnal]

???

 

[thawolfman]

Centrino?

 

[rudeguy]

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

 

[kt]

As far as I know, some of the IBM Thinkpads have it. For sure the newer T23 has them.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

I got my Dell 8200 back in October, and it has it. Nothing new.

 

[rudeguy]

quick...change the thread title to tubgirl meets goatse and let this thread die

 

[loup garou]

6 months...










...ago

 

[DaveSimmons]

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.

 

[HappyPuppy]

Gateway laptops have had builtin wifi for quite awhile. You need to wake up, dood.

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
Gateway laptops have had builtin wifi for quite awhile. You need to wake up, dood.

d00d what is wifi?

 

[ViRGE]

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.

 

[gopunk]

ibm...

 

[Placer14]

Yea, Inspiron 8200 i just bought for 1550 has wifi built in. Nice machine too.

 

[Eug]

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?

 

[KenGr]

My IBM Thinkpad has built in wireless. I've had it for over a year.

 

[HappyPuppy]

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
Gateway laptops have had builtin wifi for quite awhile. You need to wake up, dood.

d00d what is wifi?

Check this link out for an explanation of wifi:



Wi-Fi

Understand now?




















j/k

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.

 

[Cat13]

My HP laptop is about 2 months old and has built in wireless. Works great with my $20 Belkin wireless router!

 

[HokieESM]

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).

 

[Derango]

hello and welcome to 6 months ago