Hi All,
I just got to brag about my sweet setup I have at my place! A good four years ago, I had a G4 1.2Ghz iBook which was my reintroduction back to mac after a boring stint on a Windows platform. Eventually, I got into the iTunes kick and discovered the Airport Extreme. It went "OK" for a bit but it would never stream the music correctly through my linksys router. I constantly had to restart the router ! Well, I knew what I wanted and waited and waited.
Now, my purchases:
The biggest and most expensive was the purchase of my condo. It is sweet...but I won't bore you with the details! Next purchase was the newly released Airport Extreme with 802.11N which I purchased. This thing is sweet!! I had to restart my linksys router 2 times a day average. This thing was expensive compared to competitors, but it is ROCK SOLID! No more restarts!! I then connected the AP Express to my network which was connected to fairly nice computer speakers via 3.5mm jack. Talk about simple!! I had this all setup on my iBook and man, I couldn't have been happier. It streamed very well with my speaker and didn't skip if it was in descent proximity. But, I wanted to do this right and get this hooked up to a stereo system. My house is wired everywhere and I wanted to get the music flowing through the house and not my computer speakers. I found an open item stereo with dual zone outputs at APT electronics about a month and a half ago. Got that hooked up but unfortunately, my iBook was running into hardware issues and things were on hold for a bit. Since this was just over a month ago, all the SR MBP rumors were in full force. I decided to wait until that came out before I continued.
Finally, the MBP came out and I picked it up the next day!! OH YEAH...I'm in business. A 15" 2.4 C2D, 2G standard configuration with 256 Geforce GPU. So, I got the MBP, AP Express and Airport Extreme all hooked up. Unfortunately, I still got interruptions in the music stream. I notice the strength on my MBP in my living room was not that strong being my base station is a good 100 feet away. I picked up another AP express today and extended my network. Totally fixed the problem!! So, I am wired ... or should I say wired-less up with Apple products and it is smooth as butter! All that is left is plugging in my external USB HD to my base station and I am set.
My family and my roomate's family is coming in this weekend. They are going to be blown away how cool this all is!! I'll be mixing my music through front row and my remote and they are going to be like, what?? Maybe this will get them off Winbloz?? It was expensive, but worth it!! No CDs...Just digital fun!
I just got to brag about my sweet setup I have at my place! A good four years ago, I had a G4 1.2Ghz iBook which was my reintroduction back to mac after a boring stint on a Windows platform. Eventually, I got into the iTunes kick and discovered the Airport Extreme. It went "OK" for a bit but it would never stream the music correctly through my linksys router. I constantly had to restart the router ! Well, I knew what I wanted and waited and waited.
Now, my purchases:
The biggest and most expensive was the purchase of my condo. It is sweet...but I won't bore you with the details! Next purchase was the newly released Airport Extreme with 802.11N which I purchased. This thing is sweet!! I had to restart my linksys router 2 times a day average. This thing was expensive compared to competitors, but it is ROCK SOLID! No more restarts!! I then connected the AP Express to my network which was connected to fairly nice computer speakers via 3.5mm jack. Talk about simple!! I had this all setup on my iBook and man, I couldn't have been happier. It streamed very well with my speaker and didn't skip if it was in descent proximity. But, I wanted to do this right and get this hooked up to a stereo system. My house is wired everywhere and I wanted to get the music flowing through the house and not my computer speakers. I found an open item stereo with dual zone outputs at APT electronics about a month and a half ago. Got that hooked up but unfortunately, my iBook was running into hardware issues and things were on hold for a bit. Since this was just over a month ago, all the SR MBP rumors were in full force. I decided to wait until that came out before I continued.
Finally, the MBP came out and I picked it up the next day!! OH YEAH...I'm in business. A 15" 2.4 C2D, 2G standard configuration with 256 Geforce GPU. So, I got the MBP, AP Express and Airport Extreme all hooked up. Unfortunately, I still got interruptions in the music stream. I notice the strength on my MBP in my living room was not that strong being my base station is a good 100 feet away. I picked up another AP express today and extended my network. Totally fixed the problem!! So, I am wired ... or should I say wired-less up with Apple products and it is smooth as butter! All that is left is plugging in my external USB HD to my base station and I am set.
My family and my roomate's family is coming in this weekend. They are going to be blown away how cool this all is!! I'll be mixing my music through front row and my remote and they are going to be like, what?? Maybe this will get them off Winbloz?? It was expensive, but worth it!! No CDs...Just digital fun!