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Better airport range in new PB's?
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I was wondering if anyone thinks that making the airport extreme included in the laptop might mean better airport range. To me, this means better integration, but I dunno. The reason I ask is because I'm planning to buy a PB once they hit G5's and I want to know what Apple is doing to get radiowaves out of the aluminum casing.
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Originally posted by OperaMan:
I was wondering if anyone thinks that making the airport extreme included in the laptop might mean better airport range. To me, this means better integration, but I dunno. The reason I ask is because I'm planning to buy a PB once they hit G5's and I want to know what Apple is doing to get radiowaves out of the aluminum casing.
I think it was more of a competitive move targeted at Intel's Centrino line than anything else. I guess they're pretty much the iBook of the PC world being portable and cheap, that is. 
I just bought a 15" with Airport Extreme early in April and I love it... but I don't think it gets the same reception that my Pismo got with an Apple Airport card. 
(Last edited by [APi]TheMan; Apr 20, 2004 at 08:19 PM.
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I'm hoping that the new 15" gets better reception as well. I have a Ti book right and the reception blows. My wife has a iBook and the reception is much much better. We can both be in the bedroom at the same time and her reception meter will show full bars, mine will have two. I sure hope the new 15" has better reception.
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Originally posted by OperaMan:
I was wondering if anyone thinks that making the airport extreme included in the laptop might mean better airport range. To me, this means better integration, but I dunno. The reason I ask is because I'm planning to buy a PB once they hit G5's and I want to know what Apple is doing to get radiowaves out of the aluminum casing.
I don't think Apple is building Airport into the circuit board; they're just including the Airport card and preinstalling it.
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Just a update on this topic. There are a bunch of reports that Airport 3.4 and the 5.4 base station update ruins the range. Hopefully Apple will have this fixed before the units ship.
I ran the update and am now getting 3 bars of signal. There is a 5db omnidirectional antenna hooked up to my base station and I am sitting seven feet from it with no walls in the way...
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