MacBook and Wireless

While wireless is now a necessity for me, I have to say I am disappointed in the MacBook's performance. My friends with iBooks are able to get WiFi quickly and their connections are reliable. My newer MacBook, however is inconsistent in the extreme and I have not been able to find the cause. The Mac store put a new airport card in but it was even worse after that. I have noticed one peculiar oddity however. While I am waiting for the wireless network at work to come up (and I do mean WAITING) I have found that if I click on the airport icon in the computer's main menus I get the connection almost every time. I just don't like having to do that and am really tired of the tcomputer's behavior in this regard. What do you know about this? What is going on? Thanks.
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Well, I think Apple is a great company, a culture unto itself, but for the first time, after owning four Macs, I am getting impatient with the tedious bugs in Apple products and the inferior builds compared with earlier Apple models. These bugs seem to be the result of constant and often unnecessary changes to products, generating an environment of complex variables that even Apple technicians don't totally understand. A weak wi-fi signal should not be a big mystery. Either there is something amiss in the outgoing signal so that the Macbook can't receive it or something wrong with the Mac itself. Well? How about some comments from Apple on this?

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