Wireless Internet Cards For Laptops And The Laptops Who Love Them
Wireless internet cards for laptops have changed very little over the years mostly because the expansion slots they go into have not changed very much either. If your airport hasn't changed then why change the airplanes? Okay, that was really bad, but you get what I mean. Wireless internet cards for laptops were initially designed so well that the only thing that has changed on them over the years is the protocols they use to connect to a wireless internet connection. Other than that wireless internet cards for laptops still provide the same functions now as they did when the first came out, with a few additions of course.
In the first Star Trek movie the good doctor Bones McCoy said that engineers love to change things and in many cases he is right. When it comes to wireless internet cards for laptops the connectivity, the shape, and the size has remained the same for years but the functionality has changed a lot. You can now get wireless internet cards for laptops that are the size of a credit card, plug into the expansion slot on your laptop, offer a clear cellular connection, and can also be used as a cell phone with the addition of a plug in ear piece. It is pretty impressive what they can do with the technology these days and the future can only bring more surprises.
But As The Technology Changes So Does The Connection
They now make wireless internet cards for PDAs along with laptops and some laptops are coming with an extra slot where you can use the card designed for a PDA as a wireless internet card for your laptop. This is the one field in which laptop technology adapted rather than changed. You can get a wireless internet card for you laptop that can also fit your PDA which makes the card half the size of the normal PCMCIA expansion card used in a laptop even to this day. The cross platform integration of these different technologies is amazing to watch and there may come a day very soon when PCMCIA slots are removed from laptops all together and when you go to get a wireless internet card for your laptop you will be getting something the size of two postage stamps. It boggles the mind.
Technology marches forward and today you can buy a laptop which has the wireless internet connection built into it already. But don't look for an antenna or anything like that like they used to have when wireless internet for laptops first came out. Now everything is smaller and smaller and soon your laptop is just going to be a screen with a processor more powerful than any computer you have ever seen.
