Airport card for G3 iBook

[Benito Malito]

Hello I'm a new member here but I've read the site before. My iBook is getting a new hard drive this week. Reading this board helped me a lot with that ordeal.

I also decided to get an airport card. It's a G3 700mhz 640 ram, and I bought it just over 3 years ago. I've read and searched quite a bit, but it seems the best thing to do is bite the bullet, and drop like $150.

Here's one;

http://cgi.ebay.com/ORIGINAL-APPLE-...819125561QQcategoryZ80060QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Is this the nicest, fastest plug and play solution? Are there alternatives that are signifiantly cheaper and do not require me to wait/bid/snipe etc.?

 

[California]

Hello I'm a new member here but I've read the site before. My iBook is getting a new hard drive this week. Reading this board helped me a lot with that ordeal.

I also decided to get an airport card. It's a G3 700mhz 640 ram, and I bought it just over 3 years ago. I've read and searched quite a bit, but it seems the best thing to do is bite the bullet, and drop like $150.

Here's one;

http://cgi.ebay.com/ORIGINAL-APPLE-...819125561QQcategoryZ80060QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Is this the nicest, fastest plug and play solution? Are there alternatives that are signifiantly cheaper and do not require me to wait/bid/snipe etc.?

I got one new last year at Unitek in Los Angeles for about 79 bucks. Seems high.

 

[strider42]

Hello I'm a new member here but I've read the site before. My iBook is getting a new hard drive this week. Reading this board helped me a lot with that ordeal.

I also decided to get an airport card. It's a G3 700mhz 640 ram, and I bought it just over 3 years ago. I've read and searched quite a bit, but it seems the best thing to do is bite the bullet, and drop like $150.

Here's one;

http://cgi.ebay.com/ORIGINAL-APPLE-...819125561QQcategoryZ80060QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Is this the nicest, fastest plug and play solution? Are there alternatives that are signifiantly cheaper and do not require me to wait/bid/snipe etc.?

smalldog.com has them sometimes, as does lacomputercompany.com

 

[Benito Malito]

smalldog.com has them sometimes, as does lacomputercompany.com

Good links guys. Thanks. Unfortunately only lacomputer had them $169 plus tax and shipping. Yikes.

Are there any non-apple backwards compatible options? Like this one for powerbooks?

http://store.yahoo.com/lovemacs/soarex.html


Best price I found in-stock.

http://www.macofalltrades.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=AIRPORT1&Show=TechSpecs

That's where I ended up ordering one from. $136 shipped, and no bidding/sniping/waiting.

 

[moot]

Wow, that's steep.

I thought I paid a lot -- $96 on ebay.

Is that how much the market price is nowadays

 

[asherman13]

i would've gotten an airport card (ibook g3 600mhz) but i decided to go with two belkin ethernet bridge/access-points, one for my router and one for my ibook. my ibook's display is cracked, so it's basically a mac mini with a keyboard (i use an external flatscreen display), so i went for that option, as my computer is stationary...http://www.powerbooktech.com/ has usually had the old airport card fairly cheap, not sure about now though....good luck!

EDIT $59 @ powerbook tech: http://www.powerbooktech.com/item,name-Airport-card,cat-(4).htm

 

[FocusAndEarnIt]

I have one. If my deal on eBay doesn't go through (I don't think it will), I'll sell you it.

 

[Benito Malito]

I'd given up on an airport card until I found this site while looking for info to get my iBook's HD repaired.
But $59 Wow $59. Thanks dude. Far exceeds my expectations. I wish I'd been more patient, but I cancelled my other order, and it was fine.
BTW that link is out of stock, and the price went up to $65. At least they aren't gouging.

 

[doucy2]

these airport card have gone insane in price over the last year i remember looking on ebay and $85 was the highest price in sight now they are way over $120
i bought one airport card in the marketplace a few months back for $30, wow i guess i got a deal
just look around there for people selling thiers, you might just come along a bargin and save a lot of money.