This has probably been done before, but I thought I'd share anyway.
I was was salvaging my friends destroyed HP laptop, (courtesy of the swedish police) and I noticed something interesting, that the wifi card had a broadcom chipset. Well, crazy as I am, I immediately ripped my old trusty Macbook1,1 apart and threw it in, knowing that broadcom is basically plug and play in hackintosh systems.
This is the result:
Its a Broadcom BCM94321 card that can be bought on ebay for $10-15USD. I didn't even realize how much the G card was bottlenecking my internet connection. I'm on a steady 30-35 mb/s now, when the original card was maxed out on 10-12 mb/s. This is on a ****** 100/100 line.
This can be done with some common sense and the ifixit manual. You can also avoid paying $80-90USD for the Mac Pro Wifi N card that is also compatible.
Cheers
I was was salvaging my friends destroyed HP laptop, (courtesy of the swedish police) and I noticed something interesting, that the wifi card had a broadcom chipset. Well, crazy as I am, I immediately ripped my old trusty Macbook1,1 apart and threw it in, knowing that broadcom is basically plug and play in hackintosh systems.
This is the result:
Its a Broadcom BCM94321 card that can be bought on ebay for $10-15USD. I didn't even realize how much the G card was bottlenecking my internet connection. I'm on a steady 30-35 mb/s now, when the original card was maxed out on 10-12 mb/s. This is on a ****** 100/100 line.
This can be done with some common sense and the ifixit manual. You can also avoid paying $80-90USD for the Mac Pro Wifi N card that is also compatible.
Cheers
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