[venzaspa]

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

[theandrewbailey]

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.

[vel0city]

I've had laptops with cellular modems built in going back to Pentium IIIs. The Compaq N600c had a "multiport" bay on the lid, one of the options was a GSM modem.

[brcmthrowaway]

Jesus, what a waste

[gempir]

*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.

[dlcarrier]

I've never had a modern laptop with a cellular modem, but every one I've owned has supported them internally. Even when they aren't provisioned with them, they're usually still supported as aftermarket options.

[dlcarrier]

Yeah, but any given technology hasn't been invented yet, until Apple releases it.