New Airport Extreme Base Station now with Gigabit Ethernet


and to think I nearly bought one yesterday...

Yesterday I was in Cheltenham and I very nearly purchased the (new) 802.11n Airport Extreme base station as I have been thinking about it for some time (in the main so I can update my website with further information and guides), however I decided not to.

Lucky for me I didn't.

As well as new iMacs, new iLife and new Mac minis, Apple in a statement also mentioned a new Airport Extreme Base Station.

Build-to-order options and accessories include: a 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme processor, up to 4GB DDR2 SDRAM and up to a 1TB Serial ATA hard drive on the 24-inch iMac; up to 4GB DDR2 SDRAM and up to 750GB Serial ATA hard drive on the 2.4 GHz 20-inch iMac; and up to 4GB of DDR2 SDRAM and up to 500GB Serial ATA hard drive on the 2.0 GHz 20-inch iMac. Additional options include: new Apple Wireless Keyboard and wireless Mighty Mouse; AirPort Express® and AirPort Extreme Base Station (now with Gigabit Ethernet); the AppleCare Protection Plan; and pre-installed copies of iWork™ ’08, Logic® Express 7, Final Cut® Express HD 3.5 and Aperture 1.5.

One reason I didn't purchase the new Airport Extreme was that though the three port switch would have been useful, as I was going to use it for digital video 100Mb ethernet wasn't going to be fast enough for what I had in mind. Gigabit ethernet will be plenty fast enough for me.

Now just waiting for the Apple Store to update, as when I just checked now, the Airport Extreme wasn't in there.

Posted: Wed - August 8, 2007 at 09:52 AM         | |

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