gabriel rosenkoetter on Tue, 4 Feb 2003 07:31:06 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Laptop Recommendations


On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 09:26:35PM -0500, Jason Costomiris wrote:
> On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 06:13  PM, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> >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.

But do they actually *perform* better? :^>

I've got two PCMCIA 802.11B cards, an original Orinoco WaveLAN and a
newish Brand Q (don't recall) with a Prism2 chipset. They look about
the same and have effectively the same antenna length (this is
*without* attaching an extra antenna to the WaveLAN card), but the
Prism2 gets attrocious range while the WaveLAN's quite good.

> 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.

I was referring to iBook in Apple's terms, not as an exact
specification of which model.

In any case, this all assumes I buy an Apple laptop. And there are
some others that are pretty attractive, like the dual-screen numbers
(two, mounted vertically, laptop folds twice to close) or Tadpole's
latest rendition of the sparcbook.

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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