On 31/05/2016 19:31, Andy Burns wrote:
John Rumm wrote:

The Natural Philosopher wrote:

dennis@home wrote:

Very few laptops have the WiFi on the mainboard.
Most use a mini PCI card or similar.

No laptop I have ever dissassembled has this.

Modern laptops (read anything 5 years old or less) almost always have
their WiFi module as a plug in internal unit.

Five years? Make that fifteen!

I was deliberately being a little conservative, however 15 may be
pushing it a bit. Many of the separate card solutions then were
proprietary and not interchangeable. Quite a few of the early 2000's
machines did not yet have WiFi as standard IIRC.

(or even ethernet for that matter; I remember buying a new Dell
Lattitude about that time, and had to buy a modem and ethernet on a 3Com
PCMCIA card!)

--
Cheers,

John.

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