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What makes the Airport slot special?
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Join Date: Aug 2002
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What prevents me from replacing the airport card in my Ti PB with a newer 802.11g wireless card. What makes the Airport slot different from a normal pcmcia slot?
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Pleasanton, CA
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It's inaccessible from the outside. 
There isn't space for a card with an external antenna in there.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2002
Location: SoCal
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The cheapest way is to simply write "802.11g" on your b card. Permanent marker is recommended. If your friends are OEM junkies just like mine, they will never know. They're so stupid.
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I, ASIMO.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Globetrotting
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If you are good at riggin, many of the antenna covers can be removed off wifi pc cards, then you could attach the antenna cable but you wouldn't get the reception balance feature.
Hmmm a bluetooth card might fit nicely though.
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If a group of mimes are miming a forest and one falls down, does he make a sound?
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Dec 2002
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The REAL reason you can't is that boths slots have a different form factor; AirPort Extreme is mini-PCI. Apple says they chose this because it allows more bandwith... The original AirPort slot wasn't fast enough for the new 'g' standard...
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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At a techincal level the 11b airport socket is only 16bits which gives about 20mbit/sec. fine for a 11mbit device but not much use for a 54mbit device.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: boulder, co
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i heard that the old airport slots hooked up to the ATA bus, while the new ones hook directly to the PCI bus.
and it doesn't look like MiniPCI. is it just a different form factor with miniPCI? could you theoretically stick something else in there? like... say... a GPRS modem? =D
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