APPLE AIRPORT CARD WIRELESS ADAPTER ETHERNET p/n M7600LL/E
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Customer Review: No muss, no fuss, good value.
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm using an Airport card with my iBook, and have been extremely impressed with the way it "just works". Part of the credit goes to the Mac OS X operating system of course, but such totally transparent ease of use is rare in any piece of consumer electronics.There is one caveat: Apple's very newest machines come with slots for "Airport Extreme" instead. Since Airport Extreme cards are smaller (as well as faster), they aren't interchangeable with "classic" Airport cards. Whichever kind of Airport card your computer supports is what you need to get.
Should you wait to get a machine with Airport Extreme? Probably not, if you're ready to buy. Since even the older Airport cards are faster than any connection to the Internet you're likely to find, the extra speed is only really useful when transferring files between machines at home, or at the office.
I'm not quite sure what the "electronics fan" from Los Angeles is blithering about. On any recent machine from Apple, the Airport (or Extreme) card installs without an adapter. The last "special edition" iMacs came out about two years ago. All of the flat-panel iMacs with G4 processors take Airport cards without needing an adapter, or so says Apple's spec site.
As for Apple being a non-contender in wireless, the previous reviewer couldn't be more wrong. Not only were they the first to make widespread use of WiFi (802.11b aka Airport), they were first to market with 802.11g (Airport Extreme). And as far as criticising them because a computer needs an adapter to use a technology that didn't even exist when it was designed, well, be glad you can buy that $20 adapter instead of having to buy a whole new computer.
Customer Review: Apple Airport Card
Summary: 5 Stars
I was given an older iMac g3 recently, so I decided to upgrade as much as possible. I replaced the 20 gig hdd with an 80 gig. put 1 gig of ram. and thought wireless yes.
Word of advise, make sure you do research and check whether or not your unit requires an adapter, mine did. The card goes into the adapter serial numbers out, the adapter clicks in the slot, attach the antenna and your done.
I have an airport extreme base unit downstairs and the iMac is in a guest bedroom upstairs. There is no issue with the iMac connecting. The only thing I would like people to remember is that this is an older type card and is only 2.4 Ghz, it is not going to be as fast as the newer units, and also, if your wireless base unit can not be configured for 802.11b, this card probably wont work. I also had issues with OS 9 recognizing my airport extreme, so I just upgraded the iMac to 10.4, and now it is running smooth and reliable. There is plenty of info on the web about the cards, installation, compatibility, and so on, so make sure you are getting the right card for your machine before you buy something you cant use.
Customer Review: Airport is the wireless way to go
Summary: 5 Stars
I've just bought my 4th airport card and am about to order another one. I also have an airport extreme card that I'm waiting for for the new Imac we just got. Between myself and my husband, we have a G4, 2 ibooks, 2 old iMacs, and one new 17-inch iMac. The cards used to be shipped with the adaptor (I have 3 of them for the G4 and the iBooks), but it seems like the later ones don't. If I didn't remember about the adaptors that came with the first cards we got, we would never have been able to put the last card I bought in the older iMac that I worked on today.Overall, I still think Apple's products are easy to work with. I'm a pretty recent convert, and coming in from the Wintel world without prior experience with Macs, I set up our home wireless network in a snap (that's two years ago). When I had to add another iMac that didn't have an airport card, figuring out how to add an ethernet connection to the base station (graphite) was still easy.
Airport is the easiest way to go if you want to go wireless at all.
Customer Review: Adapter Comments
Summary: 5 Stars
Just to clear things up a bit further on the adapter business. When Apple started selling Airport-capable systems and cards, the cards could be used with the CRT iMac or an iBook or Powerbook. Rather than build a special slot in the iMac that you could slide the card into, the card came with a little wraparound bit that had a socket on it which plugged into the iMac. If you were going to use the card in an iBook or Powerbook, you didn't need the adaptor, the card slides into a slot. I guess after awhile they decided to including the adapter was a bit wasteful if a large segment of the buyers weren't going to use it, so they made it an optional extra. The fact that their newer systems didn't need the adapter, and that sales of the CRT iMac were slowing down probably had something to do with it as well.I've bought 3 Airport cards myself for various systems, and have been very impressed with the ease of use and reliability of the product.
Customer Review: Airport for ailing Ibook
Summary: 5 Stars
I have an older (2000) 14" 800kHz ibook. In 2003 I returned it to Apple to have the motherboard replaced as the Ethernet port had been broken and it is part of the motherboard.(???) Apple replaced the motherboard under entended warrantee and the machine has worked well since. Recently the ethernet port was broken again. As the warrantee has long since run out, I was faced with finding another way to get internet service on the iBook. I had not previously known that the Airport card worked with wireless networks other than supported by the Apple Airport base. It does! I installed the airport card in the iBook, set the preferences for internet connectivity, input the security password, and had an internet connection faster than you can read this review. It works well and the old iBook continues to provide service.
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