[thechat] Centrino 11b & 11g

[Geoff Sheridan]

At 4:20 pm +0100 1/9/03, William Anderson wrote:
>Kevin Stevens wrote:
>>[snip]
>  > In an ideal world I would be able to slot in an 11g card and it
>>would override the internal 11b chip. Anyone able to answer this, or point
>>me in the right direction?
>
>But apparently that's how they work - you just open the laptop 
>chassis (vendor dependent), remove the existing mini PCI card, and 
>replace with an upgraded version.  I've yet to see it in practice, 
>but I'm told that's what happens.  Not quite ease of replacement as 
>an airport card i think, but close.

I was looking into this only today, with regard to making my apple 
network wireless.
Apple makes very clear that it's airport systems are not upgradeable 
- the cards are a different shape and will only fit the machine for 
which they are intended. So my slightly older G4 Powerbook can never 
get Airport extreme, even if I buy the card.
http://www.apple.com/airport/faq/
Of course this does not actually answer your question about the PC 
laptop, but tread with caution!

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