[conspire] Airport card for Calvin

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

If you can find an actual AirPort card for that low a price, I suggest you
grab it, because on eBay, bidding usually starts around $120 and only goes
up from there.

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 00:38:59 -0800, Calvin Wong wrote:

> wow. the price is just as high as the airport.... )=
> 
> 
> On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:
> 
>> Apparently, this was featured on lowendmac.com in August, with pictures
>> showing how to install. A quick google search turned this up on the second
>> page: http://www.shoplet.com/hardware/db/1571626.html
>>
>> On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 20:51:13 -0800, Ross Bernheim wrote:
>>
>> > At the Conspire meeting you mentioned that you are searching for
>> > an Airport card for your iBook. I ran across this on a newsgroup.
>> >
>> > IRO a écrit :
>> >  > G'day,
>> >  > at our local school we have a dozen or so 2 year-old 12.1" iBooks that
>> >  > we would like to kit out with Airport cards. If Apple have ceased
>> >  > production of Airport cards are we basically knackered, since there is
>> >  > no way we could afford the inflated prices the cards are going for on
>> >  > eBay.
>> >  >
>> >  > Alternatively are there any PCMCIA cards that could be fitted to the
>> >  > iBooks?
>> >  >
>> >
>> > I found on that french forum
>> > <http://forums.macgeneration.com/vbulletin/
>> > showthread.php?t=73011&highlight=airport+sony>
>> >
>> > that Airport cards are actually rebadged Lucent cards, and Sony uses the
>> > exact same cards for their VAIO laptops, under the following reference:
>> > VAIO - PCWA-C150S. I believe they are easier to come by.
>> >
>> > You just have to pull off the clipped antenna and you got yourself a
>> > perfectly functionnal Airport card.  :)
>> >
>> > I don't know about the prices of those cards, but I think they could be
>> > cheaper than those overhyped Airport cards...
>> >
>> > End quoted text.
>> >
>> > Enjoy,
>> >
>> > Ross
>>
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