I recently went on vacation, and was extremely let down by the performance of my airport card. I have a 15 Aluminum PowerBook with the first generation of backlit keys. I went with some other family and my bro in law brought along his 17inch Dell notebook. We rented a house to stay near family, and once getting settled in, we both setup to see if there were any wireless access points for us to use. He was able to see and use 5 different WIFI hotspots without leaving the couch. I could not see any of them, and looked like an idiot walking around the house with my PowerBook trying to find a signal.
For the only Mac user in the family trying to persuade others to move to make, my PowerBook and Airport gave them every reason not to switch, because my bro in laws PC was connected in no time. Anyone have any answers, because that really made me mad since Apple is supposed to be better. I updated to OS 10.4 just before the trip, and don't know if that is an issue, and have installed all updates that have been released for my airport card. Don't worry, I will never even think about switching back to PC. I just don't like feeling like an idiot when I tell people Mac is better and it doesn't hold true.
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