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Originally posted by Andy
Consider getting the mini-PCI Dell Wifi card. Even if your not on a wireless network now, you most likely will be in the next two years. It's nice not needing a PCMCIA card sticking out the side all the time and my Inspiron 8200's card gets good range. Depending on the applications you plan to run, trading a slower processor for a full Gig of RAM might be a worthwhile investement.
Consider getting the mini-PCI Dell Wifi card. Even if your not on a wireless network now, you most likely will be in the next two years. It's nice not needing a PCMCIA card sticking out the side all the time and my Inspiron 8200's card gets good range. Depending on the applications you plan to run, trading a slower processor for a full Gig of RAM might be a worthwhile investement.
do you know the difference between these two?
Dell TrueMobile™ 1300 WLAN (802.11b/g, 54Mbps) Mini-PCI card
Dell TrueMobile™ 1400 Dual-Band WLAN (802.11a/b/g,54Mbps)Mini-PCI card
is it just distance?
edit-nm, i found some info on it
TrueMobileTM 1300 WLAN (802.11b/g) miniPCI Card
This miniPCI solution offers the latest in wireless technology supporting the new IEEE 802.11g draft specification. The integrated TrueMobile 1300 miniPCI solution offers enhanced maximum channel speed of up to 54Mbps while maintaining interoperability within the 2.4GHz band with full backward compatibility to 802.11b networks. The TrueMobile 1300 (802.11b/g) miniPCI solution satisfies the bandwidth needs of users efficiently, globally and economically.
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TrueMobileTM 1400 WLAN (802.11a/b/g) miniPCI Card
This miniPCI solution offers the latest in "dual-band" wireless technology supporting both the new IEEE 802.11g draft specification with its enhanced maximum channel speed of up to 54Mbps and full backward compatibility to 802.11b networks as well as the IEEE 802.11a specification with channel speeds of up to 54Mbps at 5GHz. The TrueMobile 1400 miniPCI solution is a "dual-band" solution - providing support for wireless networks based on both the 802.11b/g or 802.11a specification. Some businesses choose to deploy 802.11a networks in densely populated environments due to its support for high throughput and greater number of non-overlapping channels.
This miniPCI solution offers the latest in wireless technology supporting the new IEEE 802.11g draft specification. The integrated TrueMobile 1300 miniPCI solution offers enhanced maximum channel speed of up to 54Mbps while maintaining interoperability within the 2.4GHz band with full backward compatibility to 802.11b networks. The TrueMobile 1300 (802.11b/g) miniPCI solution satisfies the bandwidth needs of users efficiently, globally and economically.
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TrueMobileTM 1400 WLAN (802.11a/b/g) miniPCI Card
This miniPCI solution offers the latest in "dual-band" wireless technology supporting both the new IEEE 802.11g draft specification with its enhanced maximum channel speed of up to 54Mbps and full backward compatibility to 802.11b networks as well as the IEEE 802.11a specification with channel speeds of up to 54Mbps at 5GHz. The TrueMobile 1400 miniPCI solution is a "dual-band" solution - providing support for wireless networks based on both the 802.11b/g or 802.11a specification. Some businesses choose to deploy 802.11a networks in densely populated environments due to its support for high throughput and greater number of non-overlapping channels.
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If your going to spend the money, go with the dual band (A/B/G). Most likely the 11A standard isnt' going to last much longer. A and B were the orignal standard. A got 54MBps but had reduced range, B got 11MBps (a standard Cable/DSL connection will use about 5% of that) but had better range. 11G basically is combining the 54MBps and range/frequency of 11B. I don't think the final draft of the standard is out yet though, so it may not be entirely stable. I run just a straight 11B network with a D-Link router and I'm happy. If I need to transfer a huge amount of files, I just hardwire into the router and get the 100MBps Cat5e offers.
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that 24x cd-r/dvd-r drive that you got... anyone know if it actually plays dvd's? Cuz we went to play a dvd on my g/fs laptop, and it wouldnt read it at all, acted like there wasnt one there. So I d/l winDVD or something, and it still didnt do shit
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My Inspiron 8200 had a CDRW/DVD drive (not a DVD burner) and it reads and plays DVD's fine
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