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Macbook & wireless internet
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will i be able to connect to my existing wireless network with my new macbook pro out of the box?
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of course you can. what do you think it is? a pc?
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I get internet connections that my friend on a PC can't get. I heart my mac.
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hah
you dont even need to ask
shit just works with mac
so simple
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I don't get internet connections that my PC friends can. Neither can my roommate. Airport suuuuuucks balls.
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our school issues a macbook to every student for the year, and im on it right now usin my neighbors internet. pretty dope.
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thanks for the response. im stoked my aunt tells me today, hey you want a macbook pro for graduation?
can i get an invite into the cult referenced earlier?
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Yeah, i like being in big sky and just going to the expensive hotels and copping internet.
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lucky im on my dads shitty $500 dell desktop right now
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make sure you have a router connected to your internet in your house...then you'll definitely be able to connect instantly.
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apples have the WORST wireless cards...terrible HP and Dell laptops always pick up networks that I don't with my Macbook Pro. So annoying.
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i wholheartedly disamagree! my Powerbook picks up wireless so much better then any pc I have seen. maybe the changed em, or maybe yours is defective somehow
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really? I've also used my friend's powerbook quite a bit, and our other friend's Dell was consistently getting more networks.
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My dell laptop is a pimp mo fo's im really happy i didnt get a mac
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last year it took us awhile to get internet hooke dup at our place, but both my roomates have macbook pros and i had an emac, so they stole someone else's wireless single and then shared it with me through and ethernet connection. So we basically had our little network stealing internet signals and i don't even have an airport, it was super sick.
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so...i am sitting in the library at my college and it asks me if i want to connect to their airport or w/e and i say yes...i go to safari and it's not freakin working! thank you macbook pro - looks like another trip to the genius bar.
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makes sense...i hate my college...not hate...loath.
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I dont nessisarly doubt it. Im sure they dont want random people using their bandwidth
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hahaha, thank you!! i was just gonna say something along those lines.
my home laptop is an ibook g4, it never has any problems and always stays connected to the internet.
the laptop my school provides me with is a PC. I think it has a faulty wireless card because the internet cuts out every 5 minutes or so and would reconnect after repairing it for another 5 or so minutes. My PC always gets viruses and i've had teh blue screen of death three times this week so far and its only tuesday. fuck PCS. I've hung this computer out of the third story window at my school because i got the blue screen of death right in the middle of a paper i was writing in US History. I lost 1.5 hours of work, needless to say i was pissed off. my us history teacher eventually convinced me that dropping my comp out the window wouldn't help anything.
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yeah this has been a problem for the pros... my mac mini has always had good reception but it's varies depending on the angle it sits on the desk... pros have suffered from this in the past but from what i've heard it varies from model to model.
the antenas are in the screens of the macbooks and mb pros and the big aliminium screen can act as a shield against wireless signal... apple have actually admitted this is a problem though and worked to fixing it with newer models.
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