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pra9ab0y · Jan 10, 2007, 01:47 PM

I noticed that the apple tv stream in 801.11N as macs currently dont ship with 802.11N does that mean that there will be an update to there products?

I also noticed that the new airport extreme also uses 802.11N

Frugle · Jan 10, 2007, 01:54 PM

wrong forum.. but I'm guessing that that is a pretty good guess. why would they create everything N and non let their computers be N?

the next revisions of their computers will all have N cards.

pra9ab0y · Jan 10, 2007, 01:55 PM

yeh I realized that when i scrolled down on the main page!!

So Airport uses N apple Tv uses N Apple is pushing itself this time! I had never heard of 802.11N untill this evening!

mduell · Jan 10, 2007, 02:53 PM

All of the Core 2 Duo (except 17" 1.83GHz iMac) and Xeon Macs have been shipping with the draft-N hardware. People have been using it in Windows, and Apple should be pushing out an OSX driver soon.

802.11n has been an ongoing saga for the working group... it was originally going to be finalized in like 2005, but so many companies with competing visions have gotten onboard that the final spec won't be released until at least April 2008, and I have a hunch that date will slip again.