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venzaspa • today at 8:07 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

Dell, HP and Lenovo have had laptops with cellular modems for maybe 15 years at this point.

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gempir • today at 11:39 AM

*A few select models got celluar modems.

I have owned several Dell, HP and Lenovo Laptops in the past 15 years and I have never had a cellular modem.

When Apple makes a change like that it impacts a lot of customers because they have way fewer skews.

theandrewbailey • today at 10:23 AM

I can confirm this. I work at an e-waste recycling company, and the vast majority of my inventory is corporate IT decommissioned gear. About 1 out of 10 laptops I tear down has a cellular modem, going back to about Intel Core 5th gen.