Yeah, I know the card iself won't fit in the slot, but is it possible to create a working exteme card and have it work in older machines? Just wondering if Apple or a 3rd party will come up with something that can work, or is it a hardware thing that can't be worked on.
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Any Airport extreme for older macs?
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If you have a laptop and it has a PCMCIA slot yes there will be 802.11g cards available soon. If you have a desktop mac you can hook a 802.11g router to it with ethernet.
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Re: Any Airport extreme for older macs?
from what i understand, there's no way that you'll ever get an airport extreme card in an airport slot because the interface between the mainboard and the AP slot is slower than 11g speeds anyway.
Other than the PCMCIA thing, i think you can get firewire 11g dongles or something? I think i've seen some 11g dongles, but they're obviously not USB ones.
from what i understand, there's no way that you'll ever get an airport extreme card in an airport slot because the interface between the mainboard and the AP slot is slower than 11g speeds anyway.
Other than the PCMCIA thing, i think you can get firewire 11g dongles or something? I think i've seen some 11g dongles, but they're obviously not USB ones.
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