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Apple Plans to Equip MacBooks With In-House Cellular Modems
(www.macrumors.com)
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I have half memories of patents for Mac Laptops with cellular modems from like… the late PowerPC early Intel era.
I wonder what’s changed to make Apple give the green light? Certainly isn’t cellular prices.
There was a prototype that popped up on ebay out of nowhere back around 2011. Seemingly made it pretty late into development before the idea was canned.
https://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/14/photos-of-a-prototype-macbook-pro-with-integrated-3g-cellular-data/