Question on the wireless for the m1530

I absolutely need good wifi reception on my laptop and would like to know which of the available options is the best,
Dell Wireless 1505 Wireless-N Mini-card
Intel Next-Gen Wireless-N Mini-card
Dell Wireless 1395 802.11g Mini Card

Also, the specs on the rest. all for $1308 before my student discount
SYSTEM COLOR Midnight Blue
PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7250 (2MB cache/2.0GHz/800Mhz FSB)
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition
LCD AND CAMERA High Resolution, glossy widescreen 15.4 inch LCD(1440x900) & 2MP Camera
MEMORY 4GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz (2 Dimms)
HARD DRIVE Size: 320GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive
INTERNAL OPTICAL DRIVE Slot Load DVD+/-RW (DVD/CD read/write)
VIDEO CARD 256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M GT
WIRELESS CARDS Intel Next-Gen Wireless-N Mini-card
BLUETOOTH AND WIRELESS USB Dell Wireless 355 Bluetooth Internal (2.0+Enhanced Data Rate)
BATTERY OPTIONS 56 WHr 6-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery
SOUND OPTIONS High Definition Audio 2.0
FINGERPRINT SCANNER Finger Print Reader XPS M1530
My Software & Accessories
ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE McAfee SecurityCenter 15-months edit
PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE No Microsoft Office edit

 

In situations like this, I tend to lean towards the Intel card. It's a standard Intel 4965 card that is used in many different notebook models, so you can expect decent drivers and ongoing support. Who knows what those "Dell" cards really are?

 

I have the Intel card and it works great.

 

Yeah, I would agree, get the intel card. I've heard about problems with the dell cards. But the range is pretty good whatever on the M1530- it has dual antenna etc. in the lid.
As far as I'm aware, you can get the Intel card in just a/b/g if you aren't interested in the added benefit of wireless N, but I'm getting the wireless N one anyway, even though I don't have a n router yet.
Oh, one thing I found in this laptop (old-ish XP SP2 Latitude D610) is that the intel wireless has its own connection software which is awful, but if you tell it to let windows handle it it works fine. But it might be different now.
Actually, I have an Intel card (but probably not the same one!) in this laptop and it works reasonably well on g even 3 floors up from the router, which is pretty good.

 

Another vote for the Intel card.

I use it with Ubuntu 8.04 and Windows Vista and it works great. For Ubuntu, the Intel card is definitely better, because there are good drivers for it - I've heard that the Dell wireless cards use Broadcom wireless chips, for which there are no good Linux drivers.