Friday, March 9, 2007

Wireless woes

airport
I was one of the early Intel adopters with my purchase of a Core Duo MacBook Pro. My 12" PowerBook unfortunately died a quick death, just months before the Core 2 Duos were released, forcing me to get a new machine earlier than I'd hoped. Nonetheless, I love my MacBook Pro. The only thing that has gotten me down about it was when I heard that the Core 2 Duos, which I had hoped to purchase, came with the new 802.11n wireless cards, while the earlier Core Duos were left out in the cold. *sigh*

But, fortunately a company by the name of has stepped up in allowing us early adopters to upgrade our wireless cards. Aty about $150 USD it is a bit more than I would like to pay to install it myself, but I am very thankful for the option. The new card comes with instructions on installing it in both the consumer MacBook and the MacBook Pro.

I guess I just need to place my order and to work up the courage to dismantle my MacBook Pro now. I thought I would share in case anyone else wanted to brave the task as well.

I personally want to try out the new Airport Extreme's ability to connect to an external USB 2.0 drive over the wireless connection.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That's a handy link - I've sent it around a few people today. Although I have to admit it's not much use to me. I picked up 17" MBP with Core2Duo (and n-WiFi which I can't use anyway due to the Uni connection I'm on) the week after MacWorld :)

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