It is my second time that comes across a Windows laptop that only has WiFi. It is fine if you don't ever need to re-install Windows. If you do, you may have a problem especially if you are dealing with the Home Edition. With the Home Edition, you have to have Internet connection to complete the installation. If you are like me, whose laptop comes with an unsupported WiFi card then you may be stuck at the installation. Luckily, I have an old WiFi dongle and a USB Gbps NIC that are natively supported by Windows. They allow me to get pass the "connection" stage and let me successfully re-install Windows.
With laptops that only come with WiFi is becoming a norm, it may be worth to add some natively supported USB WiFi/ NIC to your toolbox in case you are running into a similar situation like mine.
The WiFi dongle I was using is a RTL8188 based dongle. I believe the RTL8153 based USB Ethernet NIC works too.
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