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Summary: Awesome Product, Even includes backwards compat. as a bonus!
Review: Apple's airport is handsdown the best implementation of the 802.11 hardware. After 2 years, only a select few PC vendors have copied the internal design (with no adapter to break off) exceptional reception, or first rate software support included in every apple product. Intel's new Centrino product line only recently brought PC laptops up to the level of EVERY Mac portable - for noticably more than the $999 iBook as well.Airport installs easily, and Apple still supports cards for computers going back as far as 3-4 years, something only a select few companies would even bother consider doing. A solid recommendation for this product.
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Summary: Is it an Apple or a Lemon?
Review: As a long-time Apple fan I'm as surprised as anyone that I am writing this but the truth is Apple does not support their products any longer and, when it comes to wireless, Apple came out fast but has faded to be a non-contender. I recently bought my daughter a special edition iMac. Supposedly with all the bells and whistles. Supposedly "airport ready". As my daughter would say..."Not!" Think about it. When you have to buy an adaptor to use a company's products on their own products, something is wrong. I've got a room full of Apples that are, not only incompatible with all other operating systems but, all incompatible with each other. That's not the Apple I used to know. ...
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Summary: Watch out, this does not fit an Apple iBook G4!
Review: I am a recent convert and just got a new 12-inch powerbook. The retailer who sold it to me was supposed to have installed the airport card themselves, but they did not. The airport card came separately and I decided to install it myself. Not only was it the easiest thing to install in the world, it began working immediately. I'm impressed with how non-technical you need to be and how smoothly you can just do all these things that I would never have dreamt of doing myself in the PC world.
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Summary: it works like a dream
Review: I am a recent convert and just got a new 12-inch powerbook. The retailer who sold it to me was supposed to have installed the airport card themselves, but they did not. The airport card came separately and I decided to install it myself. Not only was it the easiest thing to install in the world, it began working immediately. I'm impressed with how non-technical you need to be and how smoothly you can just do all these things that I would never have dreamt of doing myself in the PC world.
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Summary: No muss, no fuss, good value.
Review: 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.
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Summary: No muss, no fuss, good value.
Review: 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.
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Summary: Airport is the wireless way to go
Review: 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.
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Summary: Airport is the wireless way to go
Review: 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.
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Summary: Adapter Comments
Review: 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.
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Summary: Watch out, this does not fit an Apple iBook G4!
Review: Recommend and rating, hard to say. My intent is to make sure that people don't make the same stupid mistake that I did! An Apple iBook G4 can only accept an "airport extreme" card. I suspect that most of the latest generation ibooks, powerbooks, and powerpcs and etc can only take the extreme card. Do your homework beforing buying the M7600LL card.
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