Airgo and Asus team for MIMO laptop

So, you've ordered a brand-new draft-n router and want to get a laptop to match. Sure, you could always pick up a card and slot it in. But if you want a portable with the latest WiFi card built-in, you may want to take a look at the version of the Asus A6T being marketed by Asus and Airgo. The laptop includes an Airgo True MIMO card, which Airgo says is capable of throughput of up to 240 MBps, along with full backwards-compatibility with existing 802.11 networks. While we don't expect Asus to sell a whole lot of these, if you want bragging rights to the laptop with the fastest built-in WiFi networking (when operating on a compatible network, that is), now's your chance.

[(Unverified) Posted May 1st 2006 2:40PM]

That all sounds good in theory, but the chances of this laptop working at MIMO speeds with the Draft N routers you mention are almost nil at this point.

Airgo has come out against Draft N products (since the competition at Broadcom, Atheros, and Marvell are stealing all the thunder) and won't have chips doing anything like 802.11n for months. Since the vendors doing Draft N can't get their products to work together -- even if they use the same chips at this point -- don't expect it from 3rd Gen Airgo.

ASUS is also selling a router with the 3rd Gen Airgo chip -- this laptop is really meant to be used with that.

[(Unverified) Posted May 3rd 2006 10:25PM]

You see the picture into the news for ASUS V6 series. Not for A6T.