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Achilles Heal of Centrino

I bought a new Averatec laptop in early 2004. I felt comfortable purchasing from someone other than the industry leaders (Dell, HP, Compaq, etc.) in part because it was a Centrino ... I figured the most important components (chipset, cpu and wireless) are all Intel and standardized (at least that is what all the Marketing is meant to make you believe). Imagine my surprise then, when I found out that the Intel Wireless chipset driver on the Averatec did not support the WPA security standard, which had been out for some time. After exhaustive searching I found that Intel had a newer driver available, but would not provide the driver directly - - Intel directed me to the computer manufacturer and Averatec had no plans to release it (the tech support person I spoke with claimed that he had no idea what WPA was). The moral of the story is that the Centrino brand provides no extra assurances because after they have received the Centrino label the individual manufacturers are free to do as they wish.

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