New iMac includes 802.11n wireless card?
September 24, 2006
According to user Peace on MacRumors forums, installing the latest Vista build on one of the new Core 2 Duo iMacs (which I happen to have purchased yesterday) reveals that the built-in wireless adapter is a Broadcom 802.11n. “N” is the new 100Mbps wireless standard that, last I checked, wasn’t quite finalized yet. Apple must have been quite confident in the emerging technology to have put it in the iMac, if this is true.
As of yet, this is unconfirmed, but you can check out the screenshot of Vista’s device manager for yourself.
UPDATE: We’ve now got a more believeable shot of the iMac running Vista with the 802.11n device identified onscreen. Also, theories are now bouncing around that this was included in the latest iMacs so that they can quickly stream wireless video to the upcoming iTV product.
UPDATE 2: Mac Rumors has made a real news post about this with better information.
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Nick Peelman September 24th, 2006 at 8:48 pm
Congrats on your purchase.
T.n September 24th, 2006 at 11:39 pm
*swoon
joek September 24th, 2006 at 11:51 pm
Better explanation: http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/09/20060924194334.shtml
AY:HX Little words to say… » Blog Archive » Core 2 Duo iMac includes 802.11n wireless? September 25th, 2006 at 12:49 am
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Core 2 Duo iMac includes 802.11n wireless? « Digged Stories September 25th, 2006 at 12:57 am
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iMac smyguppdaterad till 802.11n? - 99mac September 25th, 2006 at 1:41 am
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Andrew September 25th, 2006 at 6:14 am
I love your blog…what theme are you using and is it available publicly (as in open source?) Great information also by the way.
zebwinz September 25th, 2006 at 7:27 am
By the way, Vista has a program called “snip it”(I believe that’s the name) which allows you to take screenshots. Would be alot clearer than your digital camera.
Matthew September 25th, 2006 at 7:46 am
@Andrew: Thanks! I made the theme myself. It’s not publicly available…yet.
@zebwinz: In case it’s not clear, these aren’t my shots. I didn’t take them. And I think it’s good that whoever did this took them with a digicam, especially the second one, because then we can see that this is really being done on an iMac.
joecab September 25th, 2006 at 9:47 am
I don’t think it matters if 802.11n is finalized or not. As I recall, Apple did the same with earlier AirPort cards, and it was just a matter of a firmware update after the spec was ratified.
Nick Peelman September 25th, 2006 at 11:00 am
I find it funny that most of the Macbooks shipping have A/B/G wireless capability, even though Apple’s documentation says otherwise (they say the A part isn’t supported). How funny it was to sit at the keynote at WWDC and watch my Macbook-bearing neighbors jump onboard the functional 5.8Ghz .11a network while we .11b/g counterparts suffered along with little to no connectivity…
Eric September 25th, 2006 at 3:25 pm
It’ll surely be nice if the iMac Mini can be made into a
HD-PVR (using the eye-TV dongle to capture ATSC signals).
My big screen is typically hogged by my wife or daughter
so I’ve to do both time & place shifting.
I can’t wait to capture some of the PBS-HD shows to
be viewed in my den or bedroom over a QuickTime viewer…
I would like to cache all my HD movies into a Mini
underneath my big screen TV in the living room.
This way, I can view it wherever I want on a 802.11n
network.
Core 2 Duo iMacs sporting 802.11n cards? » JenIT September 26th, 2006 at 1:15 am
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[...] Screenshots of the Device Manager from the latest build of Vista installed on a Core 2 Duo iMac reveal that the built-in wireless card is identified as a Broadcom 802.11n part. Click on for screenshot.read more | digg story [...]
http://techcastuk.co.uk October 4th, 2006 at 10:56 am
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James November 18th, 2006 at 10:58 pm
Sorry to catch old news, but how do you think one would go about telling what kind of 802.11 card they actually have installed in their Intel Macs?
nolee February 18th, 2007 at 10:03 am
well, all this sound real cool, but I bough my 1st mac yesterday (macbook pro 15″) and this super advanced airport is just not as powefull as my laptop PC wifi a/b/g…
Do you guys think that the firmware update will eventually help to increase its signal reception?
musclesupplements April 11th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
So is N better?
Richard July 3rd, 2008 at 11:32 am
I purchased a MacBook Pro for my daughter and a MacBook for my wife over the last two years. Neither communicates well with my Airport Express wifi router which I use to extend the wifi signal and internet connection coming from my Belkin N Wifi Router. Does anyone else have similar wifi reception problems like this? Is there any configuration change on the MacBook which might improve the wifi reception under these circumstances? Thanks.
Richard
Joe July 16th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Good