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Old Jun 17, 2003 | 6:31 pm
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Avoid Centrino? I recommend you avoid Intel.

Built-in WiFi in a notebook's ad copy can mean a number of things. It can be incorporated into the processor, a la Centrino, incorporated onto the mainboard (which I think Fujitsu does in its P series notebooks) or it could mean that there is an internal miniPCI card present in the notebook. My Dell has a miniPCI slot free and I got a miniPCI 802.11b card on eBay for $50 USD. I did have a PCMCIA card but I got sick of forgetting to bring it with me.

I see IBM is pushing WiFi big time in their ThinkPad ads. I wonder what type of architecture they are using. Maybe PreferBulkhead would know?
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