Smooth it is said that hindsight is 20/20 -- obviously not in your "special" case. I would opine that is probably closer to legally blind.
Yep. That, low power of the .11b chip and the PM, the massive educational campaign on how to change your way of working, the massive effort by Intel to establish hot spots, yada, yada... and the public ready to accept it.
Of course you just got through saying:
It was wireless that was ready to take off and did. Low power was icing on the cake.
So which one do you want to go with? Take some time, you can use your fingers to help you if you need to. You can ask your friends for help, but please use a private message as it will be much less embarrassing.
Clue: Intel wanted to sell wireless chipsets and they needed to figure out a way to make OEM's buy them.
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