Re: [PLUG] Laptop Recommendations

[Jason Costomiris <jcostom@jasons.org>]

On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 06:13  PM, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 05:56:07PM -0500, William H. Magill wrote:
> [General agreement]
> > The only downside I know of is with the old TIbooks -- they have their
> > antenna's in the wrong place. I get about twice the signal strength
> > with my iBook when sitting next to a TIbook. But that is fixed in the
> > new powerbooks and they support bluetooth and WiFi (11g)on the same
> > box, out of the box.
>
> Have you actually seen that to be fixed, or are you going on Apple's
> "Yes, we know it's a problem."

They actually fixed it in the AlBooks.  Those machines use the new 
Airport Extreme card, and have the antennae next to the screen.

> If I drop money on a new iBook, I'd really rather not also drop
> money on another WaveLAN card (since I obviously can't use my
> existing one, since that will obviously turn into the stereo's
> remote control ;^>).

If I were going to buy an iBook right now, I'd think twice..  I might 
think about getting the 12.1" AlBook.  It's a G4/867, and you can get a 
SuperDrive in it.  It's more $$ ($1999 vs. $1299), but I think the 
faster CPU, better video and SuperDrive might be worth it.

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