Introduced around 2001 the 802.11a standard was thought up as an alternative to 802.11b, at the time 802.11g was being ratified and due to its compatibility became the mainstream standard in computers from that point onwards.

Three years ago Greg Joswiak of Apple said “802.11a makes no sense - no sense at all…There’s no conceivable (802.11)a market.”

Apple have now taken the opportunity to implement the standard and its certainly not a bad thing, supposedly Schiller was using an 802.11a network during the Keynote last Tuesday to demonstrate the MacBook Pro’s iSight capabilities.

So now Apple has 802.11 a/b/g how about some n.