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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My laptop only supports 2.4 GHz lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The WiFi card in laptops tend to be modular so you may be able to upgrade it. I've never done it though so dunno

[–] evranch 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Used to be but it's been part of the chipset for years now. You can add a USB dongle though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Mine's a 2021 Dell Inspiron 15 7510, but its a 15.6 inch, might be different in smaller form factors

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

A lot of laptops still have socketed wireless. Intel even sells wifi 7 m.2 cards (using real pcie, not cnvio) for exactly this purpose