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

rudeguy

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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

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

rudeguy

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

DaveSimmons

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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.
 

ViRGE

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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.
 

Eug

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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?
 

HappyPuppy

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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?


:p


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

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

HokieESM

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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). :)