Range eMac: Card v. Airport Express v. Base Station

Hi,
Want to go wireless in my home with my eMac.
Wondering about the respective ranges of the: Airport Extreme Card, Airport Express Base Station and the Airport Extreme Base Station.
I'm mainly going to be connecting with my PC notebook from work.
I'm thinking that the airport antenna built into my eMac should compete well with the signal put out by the Airport Express Base Station and the Airport Extreme Base Station.
Am I horribly deluded (about this anyway)?
John
eMac Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Mcfugu,
If you're sure you want your eMac to go wireless. I'm just asking you to think twice about it, will it give any benefit ?
Will you need the Airport Express ?, or Airport Extreme Base Station ? This will depend on whether you want to use Airtunes (limiting where your wireless range will be) and whether you want to limit all your computers to have to connect to the network over wireless (AXBS has Ethernet ports for computers to connect to).
As your original question was just about range, probably just for the PC laptop you bring home from work, you'll have to work out how far you want the wireless range to extend.
AE has a very small antenna, and by it's very nature, is placed very low down on the wall (wireless devices like high up, above desks, furniture, etc).
AXBS is slightly better, and usually has a better placement.
If you do use the AX in your eMac, I'm sure it'll have no problem with wireless range, I think the antenna goes round the screen, definitely big enough.
So only queston(s): How far does the wireless range need to extend ? And what sort of materials are in the way (walls, fish tanks, pipes, microwaves, etc)

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