| Ultra Low-Power Wireless Card |
| Written by Hank Green | ||
| Thursday, 31 August 2006 | ||
These things will likely find homes in cell phones and PDA's first.
But as the $170 pricetag drops they'll find their way into laptops,
cameras and possibly even your household appliances. Connecting to the
internet without sucking a lot of juice is a big deal, not to mention
the benefits for low-power computing.
Via Engadget
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$170 and on cellphones before laptops?
written by GTW , September 05, 2006
Shouldn't it be the other way around? Would people pay $170 extra for a cellphone for better wifi or pay $170 extra for a laptop that's a couple of thousand dollars anyway?
Size
written by Hank , September 05, 2006
Because there's no reason to have an expensive chip in a laptop when the amount of size and power it uses doesn't make as much off a difference. Laptops might as well use cheaper, larger chips. While cell phones need to be tiny and last a long time with small batteries.
Still...
written by GTW , September 11, 2006
The chances of paying $170 extra for a mobile phone or a PDA are far less than people paying it for a laptop for increased battery life. Also, the size of the chip could have a correlation with the energy consumption. And even if that's not true... why do you think there are bigger chips that can do it when the post itself calls this thing "the most efficient WLAN module in the world"?
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