Wireless options for Dual 1.25 Powermac G4?

hollywood · 11th December 2005

Went to an apple store, they handed me an Airport Extreme card. Drove home, installed it. It wouldn't recognize the card. Called tech support, they told me that it's not compatible with the Extreme card. It's only compatible with the original card. Took it back to the apple store, got a refund, but they do not carry the original cards anymore. Neither does apple.com or most sites.

My options are buy a used one from ebay (I don't trust ebay at all), or find a third party wireless card that will work and hope it doesn't crash my system (if there is one).

Apple has been really pissing me off lately. No PCI cards on the new G5s. Now they've stopped selling the old Dual 2.7s w/pci, they're most likely discontinuing firewire, now this.

I guess the lesson is to buy everything need for your system, accessories, etc the day you buy the unit, because a year later, you won't be able to find anything for it at all.

This just seems like really bad practice to me. I have no faith in any of their new products coming out because you can't rely on that technology being supported a year or two down the road. Oh well, they're selling a lot of stuff now, so I'm sure they don't care, but in a few years, I think that this will catch up to them.

logichead · 11th December 2005

Call expercom.com - they are a service center and had some fairly recently. You could also try finding someone with an aging iBook laptop who's willing to retire the computer and sell you their card.

Best...H

karl · 13th December 2005

Don't use the original Airport Card. It will be overpriced and very slow. It is a .b instead of a .g. I found the Aria Extreme pci card to work in my Dual 867 MDD G4. It is recognised as an airport card by OSX. Was easy to install.

http://www.sonnettech.com/product/aria_pci.html

11th December 2005	#1
hollywood Gear Head Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 58 Thread Starter	Wireless options for Dual 1.25 Powermac G4? Went to an apple store, they handed me an Airport Extreme card. Drove home, installed it. It wouldn't recognize the card. Called tech support, they told me that it's not compatible with the Extreme card. It's only compatible with the original card. Took it back to the apple store, got a refund, but they do not carry the original cards anymore. Neither does apple.com or most sites. My options are buy a used one from ebay (I don't trust ebay at all), or find a third party wireless card that will work and hope it doesn't crash my system (if there is one). Apple has been really pissing me off lately. No PCI cards on the new G5s. Now they've stopped selling the old Dual 2.7s w/pci, they're most likely discontinuing firewire, now this. I guess the lesson is to buy everything need for your system, accessories, etc the day you buy the unit, because a year later, you won't be able to find anything for it at all. This just seems like really bad practice to me. I have no faith in any of their new products coming out because you can't rely on that technology being supported a year or two down the road. Oh well, they're selling a lot of stuff now, so I'm sure they don't care, but in a few years, I think that this will catch up to them.

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logichead Gear addict Joined: Aug 2003 Location: Culver City Posts: 405	Call expercom.com - they are a service center and had some fairly recently. You could also try finding someone with an aging iBook laptop who's willing to retire the computer and sell you their card. Best...H

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karl Gear maniac Joined: Mar 2004 Location: London Posts: 277	Don't use the original Airport Card. It will be overpriced and very slow. It is a .b instead of a .g. I found the Aria Extreme pci card to work in my Dual 867 MDD G4. It is recognised as an airport card by OSX. Was easy to install. http://www.sonnettech.com/product/aria_pci.html