On 02/06/2016 11:22, Theo wrote:
John Rumm wrote:
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.

'Centrino' was the first major push for wifi in laptops - that was 2003.
I've definitely swapped out the wireless card on a 2004 Centrino laptop.

Yup that was a complete chipset solution so more standardised than
previously. (even if Intel did get into trouble with the advertising
regulators for neglecting to mention the whole "work anywhere" bit was
only true when near a WiFi network!)


--
Cheers,

John.

/================================================== ===============\
| Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
| John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk |
\================================================= ================/