Originally Posted by mongatu
Thanks to all for the suggestions and info. Really helpful.
I would like to get a good quality card that handles all the current standards but may end up going for something cheap because this is just a temporary solution till the next laptop purchase in 6 months or so which will probably come with a good adapter.
Just bear in mind that most of the "built-in" ones are usually the intel-chipset based one's that while not bad, aren't nearly at the top either (they're designed to be more power friendly than performant).