It'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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venzaspa 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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

	▲	gempir 42 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		*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 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		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.

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Glemllksdf 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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panny 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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.

	▲	Dagger2 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You're thinking of MAC addresses. Machines don't have permanently-assigned v6 addresses, rather the IP is assigned by whatever network they're currently attached to and will change based on that network's whims, just like it does in v4.
	▲	merpkz an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		As if people doesn't already carry always online machine in their pockets