Talk:Adding Bluetooth and Wireless to a Mac Pro

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The author of this wiki guide left out the installation of the bluetooth and wi-fi modules. Isn't that what you buy at the Apple store in addition to the antenna connectors to perform the upgrades?

Available at Apple Store???

Where are these modules available at the Apple Store. Just went there and don't see them anywhere.

Responses to above two comments

This article was mainly written as a guide to connecting the wires in the right way because a lot of Mac Pros were sent with the antennae connected incorrectly. Plugging the cards are pretty simple, its the antennae that are the tricky part. The modules are available from the Apple Store and Apple Resellers although they're not supposed to be selling them to your average Joe, they're for Apple Authorised Service Providers only although most staff members either don't realise this or don't care and will sell it to you anyway. They're actually the cheapest modules available across the Mac line for airport extreme. I just purchased the Airport Extreme module today for £29.99 from an Apple Reseller.

Incidentally, the airport extreme cards used in the Mac Pros are actually the same as the MacBook and MacBook Pros. While you may think this may be irrelevent since all MacBooks come with wireless, these cards are capable of 802.11n which the original MacBook and MacBook Pros do not support. Hence, you can actually upgrade a first gen MacBook, for example, to 802.11n - something that could be quite desirable if you want to make sure all your computers on a wireless network are 802.11n compliant only so as not to have the network throttled back by one 802.11g machine. Spanky Deluxe 16:30, 11 July 2007 (EDT)