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Adding Airport Extreme Card & Bluetooth Card after the fact
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Join Date: Jul 2003
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How difficult is it to add the Airport Extreme and bluetooth card to the MacPro if one were to purchase it without being installed by Apple?
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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I suppose the difficulty in doing so depends on your tech savviness. That being said, you void your warranty if you try doing it yourself. An Apple Authorized Specialist is needed, and I don't believe the parts themselves are available for order as of yet. So, additionally you would have to wait a bit until Apple made the parts available.
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Join Date: Jun 2005
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How would you void your warrenty? The MacPro is MADE to be user upgradeable, hence the easy access door, easy access to all components, and the overall prettiness of the INside of the machine.
If you see pictures of the inside of the Intel iMac, you will see it is a total mess... because it is not meant for opening, and opening it will most probably void your warrenty.
From what I understand, its just a standard PCI (or similar) slot on the mobo that the card slots into. I would need someone to confirm that before you assume my information to be correct.
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Join Date: Mar 2000
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Originally Posted by harrisjamieh
How would you void your warrenty? The MacPro is MADE to be user upgradeable, hence the easy access door, easy access to all components, and the overall prettiness of the INside of the machine.
Only certain components are identified as customer installable. If you touch anything else besides the customer installable parts, you can void your warrantee. Keep in mind, Apple has a record of what you bought from them.
This page lists the customer installable parts, I believe:
http://www.apple.com/support/manuals/macpro_diy/
which is basically HD, Optical Drive, RAM, PCIe cards, PCIe graphics card and battery. I thought there was another page on Apple that lists this, but I couldn't find it.
The airport card is in a standard slot, but it's not a PCI slot.
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