PC Cards and the Aluminum G4 Powerbook: Airport Cards vs PC Cards

I have a very nice PB G4/1.25Ghz/FW800 with Airport Extreme installed, but the range is not very good compared to the other laptops in the house.
My wife's Dell Latitude D600 (with internal 802.11g) gets better reception in the nether reaches of the house than my PB. Not by a lot, but it does get usable reception in areas I can't get or keep a signal when I do get one.
To make matters worse, I just repaired by son's girlfriend's Toshiba Satellite laptop with a Netgear 802.11b pc card installed (from her previous laptop) and this ancient card gets GREAT reception all over the house!
I am sure it's because the antenna is outside the case of the computer and so acts like an external antenna, so naturally it gets a better signal. However, I'd like to get great reception also and the antenna offerings I've seen are expensive and in some cases, not easy to install and frankly, kludgey and they stick out too much and look like they'd be easy to break and/or lose.
What I'm considering is a wireless/g pc card. They're inexpensive, easy to install and easy to remove. I know that PBs have limited PC card options and they must use the Broadcom chipset to be compatible, but even the "designed for Apple cards are cheaper than an antenna. And, not surprisingly, there are variations in the reception quality of PC Cards in general.
There are several PC Cards that are NOT designed for Macs that are supposed to work after Airport 3.1 but I don't know which they are. Does anyone have any idea which PC Cards ) other than the Sonnet Aria and the MacWireless 11g?
And do I have to remove the internal Airport card before installing an aftermarket PC Card?
I'd like to be able to choose from a larger pool of potentially compatible PC Cards using price and reception as my criteria.
JoeL

Kurt,
There are a couple of other cards "specifically" for the Mac and without the satellite dish! ; - )
The Sonnet Aria is one:
http://www.sonnettech.com/product/aria_extreme.html
And the MacWireless 11g is another:
http://www.macwireless.com/html/products/11g11bcards/11gPCCard.php
I have no idea which of the three is better, certainly that antenna on the Hawking looks impressive, but my guess is that any pc card 802.11g is going to get better reception than the stock Powerbook internal antenna, titanium or aluminum!
I'm still not sure exactly which way to go here, and I'm still researching which of these three offer the best signal and if there is a PC/pc card that can work with the PB and gets an even better signal.
I have noticed some comparisons of cards and even between 802.11g pc cards there is a wide variability between signal strength received, so having a wider net to cast is a good thing.
JoeL

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