• @fishos@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    It is an option. Search for cell phone laptop modem and you will find hundreds of cards to install to give you cell phone service.

    Literally every internet device has a modem. You just change it from one with a wifi antenna to one with a LTE(cellphone) antenna.

    This question was born entirely out of ignorance of the devices existence, not an actual lack of the device existing. I had one in the freaking 90’s.

    Does no one remember tablet pcs, which are just low end laptops without a keyboard, that come pretty standard with cell phone service, including iPads???

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        9 days ago

        And I pointed to the iPads, that are keyboardless laptops, that come standard with one from the exact company you criticized. So I really question what you do know.

    • Laptops no longer have extension slots. You used to be able to buy cards for specific purposes and slot them in. Modern laptops have lost this, and most laptops are not self-serviceable, so any cellular modern you get today is going to be an external peripheral.

      Where are you finding laptops with integrated cellular chips?

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        -19 days ago

        It’s almost like you’d swap out the WiFi card for a sim/WiFi card… Ffs tech literacy really has died, hasn’t it?