[geeks] Wireless desktop machine?

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Ross Alexander <ross at two-cats.net> wrote:
> * Michael Schiller:
> > is there some reason to keep the airport card in the iMac, and go
> > and spend the money for another airport card for the iBook?
>
> Only reason I can think of is to make the iMac a base station, but it
> sounds like you already have that covered.

Well, if I expand the question to "Why would anyone use wireless
networking on a desktop computer?", then my answer would be that I use
one in my son's computer, since it was easier to set up than running
cat 5 through a kids room and securing it (from him pulling on it)...

Sure, laziness entered into it, but for a real non-technical user,
getting an Airport, hooking it up to their broadband/dial-up connection
and then simply putting wireless computers anywhere they want is a
strong incentive to network.

Remeber the original iMac TV ads? "Step 1, plug in the iMac, Step 2,
connect the phone line, Step 3 - there is no step three!" I think that
was effective marketing...

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Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976
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