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Fake Airport extreme cards
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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I live in shanghai, China.
The local Apple Center showed me some very funny looking Airport Extreme Cards.
They said "Mac Port" or similar and had realistic looking logo and trademark text.
It did not say Airport Extreme.
I don't want to spend 150USD on something which wont work with my iBooks internal arial.
Also I don't want to put a piece of sh1t copy in my new mac and watch it fry.
Any ideas about what this is?
Is it legit?
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airport goes by the name air mac in japan, so it might be the case that it's just a different name... but apple's china website only shows airport extreme cards. i'd pass on the card.
-r.
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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The AirPort Extreme card is also a different form factor from the original AirPort card (which looks like a somewhat short PCMCIA card). That means that, unless your iBook is built for AirPort Extreme, an Extreme card won't fit in it, and if your iBook is built for Extreme, a basic AirPort card won't fit.
Here's a link to the Apple Store's AirPort Extreme card page. You can see that this card is totally different from the old card. For size comparison, the card-edge connector is the size of a SODIMM memory module.
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Glenn -----
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Originally posted by rjenkinson:
airport goes by the name air mac in japan, so it might be the case that it's just a different name... but apple's china website only shows airport extreme cards. i'd pass on the card.
Your right!
they are not fake, it was a Japanese card I was looking at.
Thanks.
-r.
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Originally posted by GHPorter:
The AirPort Extreme card is also a different form factor from the original AirPort card (which looks like a somewhat short PCMCIA card). That means that, unless your iBook is built for AirPort Extreme, an Extreme card won't fit in it, and if your iBook is built for Extreme, a basic AirPort card won't fit.
Here's a link to the Apple Store's AirPort Extreme card page. You can see that this card is totally different from the old card. For size comparison, the card-edge connector is the size of a SODIMM memory module.
I discovered that as well, its a G4 iBook bought in Australia so it needs the Extreme card.
Thanks, problem solved.
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Administrator Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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Huzzah! Glad things worked out for you. I have never found out why it's "AirMac" in Japan, but since I know it (from lots of AirPort research when I got into wireless networking), I'm looking for it. Now you know it too, and you can be on your guard.
I avoided that hassle when I ordered a new iBook-I had the card installed at the factory. Call me lazy, but I could afford it right then and now even the installation of the card is under warranty.
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