Does Airport reception vary from laptop to laptop

I've just set up my new MacBook Pro. Back to a Mac after 10 years in the Windoze nightmare - hooray!

Oops - guess I hit 'return' too soon. Here's my question...
Does Airport wireless reception vary from Apple laptop to laptop? My wife bought a MacBook 15" about a year ago, lucky her. We're currently in a home with an Airport Extreme base station. I can pick up the network on my new MacBook Pro 15", but in some rooms her laptop gets medium to good reception where mine gets weak to no reception. In other places (some seemingly as distant from the base station, like this room where I'm typing now), we both get 4 bars.
So I'm wondering if this could be a hardware problem with my brand new laptop, or if such variations are normal. I did call Apple Tech support this morning, and the rep guided me through resetting the system management control and the PRAM. But that didn't seem to help. So is my MacBook Pro just more finicky (with less powerful reception), or could I be looking at a hardware problem? Thought I should check out user experience before calling Tech Support back.
Thanks!

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