Typing this reply on a Powermac G5. Apple ain’t all they’re cracked up to be.
In order to use the Airport Extreme I have to take the frickin side off of this beast, despite the fact that Apple bragged on the packaging that the antenna is unnecessary.
My crappy dell laptop 1 foot away gets excellent reception on the same router just two rooms away.
Yeah, I know there’s an external antenna for it, another 30 bucks on top of the 85 I already paid for the Airport card. A bit ridiculous just to get the dern thing to work doncha think.
I really, really, really, don’t give any credence to the Mac braggarts anymore, this one experience has shown me all I need to know about Mac “superiority”.
Oooh, wow, you’re complaining about a 4 year old computer.
Now that said, please explain why five out of the six Dell Inspirons my client got from Dell last year can’t see a wireless network from 3 feet away?
Actually, my G5 tower came with an external wi-fi antenna, even though I didn't have wi-fi hardware on my machine. It made perfect sense to me, as the whole machine is solid aluminum - no engineer in their right mind would expect a signal to propagate through it!
It's why on the metal MacBook Pros, there are small plastic sections along the side where the antenna sits..... otherwise the radio waves don't hae a chance....