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