[purpleblood]

I was about to purchase a basestation and a loaded up 15.2" Albook with the 5400 rpm drive of course, when my friend told me not to buy the airport extreme base station, said that macworld gave it bad reviews and what not. Besides the price would anyone recommend it? Assassyn I want your opinion! How would you config the 15.2 as well, the ram is bullshit, 2 256 meg chips to fill both sides, I think I am going to get it like that and then buy 1 1 gig sticks for a total of 2 gigs and sell the stock ones apple will send me. I am using my 20% ADC for this order, anything else I should pick up? Assassyn let me know what you think.

Peace

[DeathMan]

Just make sure you get everything [branded by apple] you want, cause that discount is only good once.

[AssassyN]

Hey! I would get the stock RAM w/ your PB, and then purchase 3rd party RAM elsewhere as it's much cheaper, and then sell the stock RAM on eBay. I'd strive for at least 1GIG total RAM in your PB.

I'd also upgrade the hard drive if you can afford it, it's a worthwhile upgrade for sure.

And after my own experience w/ Apple's AirPort Extreme Base Station, I'd say NOT to buy it. It tends to cut in and out every now and then and it's quite irritating...Linksys makes some great Base Stations at a fraction of the cost.

[Mr Heliums]

Originally posted by AssassyN:
And after my own experience w/ Apple's AirPort Extreme Base Station, I'd say NOT to buy it. It tends to cut in and out every now and then and it's quite irritating

That's not a feature unique to the Airport Basestation; in fact it's happened to just about every base station I've used.

Matter of fact, I'm ditching the godawful Buffalo Airstation I'm currently enduring for the Airport Extreme for two reasons:

1) I can attach a printer directly to it.
2) The Dr Bott line of range enhancers just plugs right in.

It should also be a sight easier to configure.

[TAZ]

I've been having problems with mine for the past few days. Posted a thread in Networking for some help. It worked fin since I bought it. Installed OfficeX and then began having problems with printing through it. Now it only prints once and you are screwed. I am also not able to configure using the Admin utility unless I reset. Got MS wiped off and reset the base last night and worked for the evening. Will see what happens tonight after I get home.

[schk]

I would avoid Apple's base station if you ever plan on expanding to have possibly more networked computers (wired ones). USB print server is nice and all, but 1 ethernet port is ridiculous for a router. On top of the fact of the high price; even with discount, it's not cheap. Of course you could always buy a switch, to hook off of the base station, but for a fraction of the cost of the AE base station, you can get a Wireless router w/ 4 wired ports that functions exactly the same minus the USB print server.

[C-Bear]

Originally posted by AssassyN:
I'd also upgrade the hard drive if you can afford it, it's a worthwhile upgrade for sure.

Does 5400 over 4200 RPM make a significant difference, and how much more battery will it burn? (Trying to decide if I should get this upgrade myself).