Apple does in fact use the centrino chipset, but due to the fact that they use their own wireless chips, they don't have to/(can't?) label their machines as Centrino's...
That was my point exactly when I stated that it would be unlikely to see Centrino labels on Mac laptops since they don't use ALL 3 components that Intel requires vendors to integrate in order to get the Centrino sticker. Whether they use 1 or 2 of the 3 components makes no difference at all.
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Apple does in fact use the centrino chipset, but due to the fact that they use their own wireless chips, they don't have to/(can't?) label their machines as Centrino's...
That was my point exactly when I stated that it would be unlikely to see Centrino labels on Mac laptops since they don't use ALL 3 components that Intel requires vendors to integrate in order to get the Centrino sticker. Whether they use 1 or 2 of the 3 components makes no difference at all.