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Apple ships 150,000 AirPort Extreme products
updated 08:55 am EDT, Tue April 15, 2003
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Apple today announced that more than 150,000 wireless networking products have been sold this past quarter, representing nearly half of all 802.11 products the company shipped during the quarter. AirPort Extreme, the next generation of Wi-Fi wireless networking technology, is based on the new 802.11g standard. "Apple was the first computer company to ship 802.11b products with the launch of AirPort in 1999, and now we're the first company to ship 802.11g in volume with AirPort Extreme," said Greg Joswiak, Apple's vice president of Hardware Product Marketing. "802.11g-based AirPort Extreme runs five times faster than 802.11b, but it's fully backward compatible with the millions of 802.11b Wi-Fi products."
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This is all groovy and what-not, but I have a simple question about this technology. I have a new 12'' PowerBook, and the AE card works wonderfully. But I bought this machine to replace a TiBook, which had the Infared/IrDA port on it, that allowed me to communicate and print to one of those older HP Jet printers with the Infrared port on it. Now, neither Bluetooth nor my AE card picks up that printer. Does these technologies provide that type of ease? I know, I know; I can print to the printer via IP printing, but still. That is the one thing I do miss from the TiBook.
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