It means that, if you share your broadband internet connection using a wireless router, your laptop can connect to your wireless network, and the internet, without requiring any extra hardware.
Thankyou for your reply mattie :-)
So if the laptop can connect to a wireless network does it mean I have to also purchase some way of making my cable broadband give out a wireless internet signal to the laptop ? I am rather confused at present but then I will be able to understand it if I know how to set it up. :-)