If your laptop has 3G (or better) radio, it has also positioning bundled in. However, although the devices might run on ancient stable standard, but that does

If your laptop has 3G (or better) radio, it has also positioning bundled in. However, although the devices might run on ancient stable standard, but that does not mean, that operating system is not playing silly games there. If you had an app that talked to them via serial port, you could throw it away once Microsoft introduced GNSS subsystem.