To you have to have an apple airport base station to use an apple laptop?

i'm looking to get a macbook but i saw a vieo on the apple website an dit said you'll need one for an wifi network in your home. we have 3 PC coomputers in ur house, they all use wireless internet through netgear. do i need to buy somthing else to use the laptop wirless?? does netgear work with macbooks?