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Apple chooses wireless

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SPOTLIGHT STORY
Apple chooses wireless

Jeff Caruso By Jeff Caruso
As the industry debates whether to continue to use wires at all for LAN connections to client computers, in walks Apple - which at its Macworld 2008 conference introduced an ultra-thin notebook computer that's missing an Ethernet port. Read full story

Jeff Caruso is site editor at Network World. Contact him.

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