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I'm talking about extending the life of a >5 year old machine, not upgrading it every few months.

It's pretty common for people to have a, let's say, 10 year old notebook with wifi 4 which could be greatly improved by adding wifi 5 or 6 capability. On a congested place with lots of neighbouring wireless networks where the 2.4ghz band is exhausted all the time your wi-fi could go from 5mbps to 500mbps, it's a BIG deal. Obviously the ability to do that on windows/linux notebooks isn't guaranteed, but it sure as hell is much more common than macbooks.



oh is that 5ghz? I've had that since 2012, before I even had a router that could handle it. I don't think there's much better? anyway, I've never had any issues with the WiFi, I don't see why I'd want to replace it.


Why did you buy a new laptop without 5GHz WiFi in 2019?




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