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TiBook Wi-Fi Range Hack: New Card

Posted by timothy on from the escape-from-doctor-farraday's-island dept.

eggboard writes "Apple likes the profit margins on its internal AirPort card (still $100 three years after introduction), but the Faraday cage that is the Titanium PowerBook keeps the AirPort card and the TiBook's internal antenna from achieving the same range as the plastic-cased white dual-USB iBooks. Wired News reports today on Cliff Skolnick et al's hack, which is simply to use a 200 mW PC Card coupled with OS X-compatible drivers. The cost winds up less than an AirPort Card, and you can get a model with an external antenna jack, too."

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  1. Slashdot: news for macs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Slashdot is turning into news for Apple. Ever since CmdrTaco turned traitor on open-source / free software and used OS X for is his primary laptop, Apple is everyone's favorite. They still make proprietary software everyone.

  2. Re:Cheaper, but you lose stability by josh+crawley · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Is Apple still demanding:

    1: Apple ONLY ram?
    2: 100$ for floppy drive?

  3. Re:What a hack. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    We have to humor the mac users, they don't get to play with their hardware much. (Sorry!)

  4. Re:Hack? by Davoid · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    In the Mac world that is what is known as a "hack". So people like Janie Porche are considered hackers.

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    "Don't sweat the technique."