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On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Peter Humphrey |
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<peter@××××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Friday 15 July 2011 15:53:28 Stroller wrote: |
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>> Every new laptop needs a wifi card, and that'll be miniPCIe. If someone |
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>> is adding wifi to their desktop, then they'll probably use a USB NIC. |
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>> When the manufacturer is already making lots of miniPCIe cards, what's |
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>> the point of making full-sized PCIe cards, which will hardly sell? |
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> I'd have thought it was the other way round: every laptop has wifi built in |
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> already, whereas most desktops don't. |
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"built-in" wifi generally comes in the form of a miniPCI or miniPCIe card. |
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