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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. Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    A PC card... in a laptop! Amazing!!!

  2. Wired to report on invention of alphabet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I'm not really sure that I'd consider something that's been available since OS 9 either "news" or a "hack". It might have been *more* of a hack when you had to install an opensource driver from sourceforge, but since Asante makes a Jaguar complient driver for their excellent Jaguar capable PCMCIA card, I dont' really see the story.