alt Hacker NewsIt's only a matter of time before laptops get 5G. Macbooks have been rumoured for a while to get cellular modems. [1]
This will probably help adoption. On the one hand it will generate more IPv6 traffic. On the other hand it will expose more developers to IPv6; which will expose them to any lack of support for IPv6 within their own products.
[1]: https://9to5mac.com/2025/08/14/apples-first-mac-with-5g-cell...
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Dell, HP and Lenovo have had laptops with cellular modems for maybe 15 years at this point.
> It's only a matter of time before laptops get 5G.
So you want laptops to cost <whatever the laptop costs> plus a measly 19.99/month for internet connectivity?
What's wrong with just tethering to my existing phone?
Thats quite surprising thing to me and weirdly obvious.
If you are single, have a phone contract, you would need some extra contract for a landline internet and wifi router because thats what a lot of people just do and now they can just add an esim and pay a little bit more.
Interesting that this sounds/feels a lot more right or useful than it did 5 years ago.
I can't imagine a worse privacy nightmare. Always on backdoored baseband in 5G with a unique permanent IPv6 address assigned to the machine. Okay, maybe it could be worse if each user account is assigned its own unique IPv6 perma-cookie.
| Macbooks have been rumoured for a while to get cellular modems.
Maybe they are finally coming, however the rumors are older then the iPhone. Example from 2008: https://pcr-online.biz/2008/11/03/3g-macbooks-on-the-way/