"Hi Mike, Have gained much info and help from your site over years now, so delighted to be able to give something back.
I have a 15" 1GHz TiBook (running 10.4.10 currently) which I've used wirelessly since I got it, first with an inbuilt Airport 802.11b card, then with a Buffalo WLI-CB-G54A 802.11g cardbus card, and now successfully with a new Edimax EW-7708PN 802.11n draft 2.0 cardbus card. I can confirm that this uses the Ralink RT2860 chipset.

Installation and configuration of the card was very simple using the Ralink OSX drivers and utility from http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=3 (link changed in late 2009) and of course it was from xlr8yourmac that I learned of their existence.

The EW-7708PN connects flawlessly to my aged Belkin 802.11g base station. This (base) is Broadcom based and is doing WDS with an 802.11g Airport Extreme, to which the EW-7708PN also connects fine. The network is rejoined on wake from sleep, but not as rapidly as with a native Airport card. (Note: A tip from Edimax PCI card users is to set the RAlink utility as a startup/login item (click + in Acct/User login items to add it).)

The Ralink utility shows that signal strength is apparently better than it was with the Buffalo card, with a significant signal associated with each antenna. Certainly performance in g mode is very good. I'm waiting for an Apple pre-N base station to make further tests, but so far I'm delighted.
(Update: I asked the Neville if the Edimax 802.11N PCMCIA card had Multiple antennas/MiMo support. He sent a screenshot from the RAlink utility showing the 3 antennas' signal strength.-Mike)

UK readers might be interested to know that I got the EW-7708PN from www.eupac.co.uk for £29.16 including VAT which equates to about $58, or less than $50 without the VAT.

I also bought the Edimax EW-7728In PCI version for use in a Quicksilver G4 to replace an old airport-compatible 802.11g Belkin card. This appears to be in every way identical to the Quickertek nQuicky card and cost me $56 (plus VAT) from Eupac.
I'm afraid I haven't tried this yet, but I've every expectation that it will work...
Best regards, Neville W."

The EW-7728 was one of the RAlink 802.11N chip based PCI cards mentioned earlier this month after the public release of the drivers - it looks just like the GW-DS300N (first spotted back in Feb) - which appears literally identical to the nQuicky card (less decal). I've added Neville's comments to the Mac 802.11n page here which is a catch-all for past posts on 802.11N cards/Bases/Drivers, chipsets used in current Macs, etc. (FYI - Like all the PCI, USB and Cardbus 802.11n adapters I have seen to date (including some without mac drivers available), these operate in the 2.4GHz band. Some 802.11n bases (including Apple's) support both 2.4GHz and 5GHz 802.11n modes.)

Update: Site sponsor OWC is now offering Newer Tech branded (RAlink chipset like Edimax adapters) 802.11n PCI, PCMCIA/cardbus and USB 2.0 adapters for under $50 on the Xlr8yourmac Site Specials page.

"Just to report a failure, then success of upgrading a 24" 2.4GHz new iMac. My brother-in-law purchased the 1GB model and ordered the 4GB (2x2GB) package from OWC.

DIMMS arrived and he called me this morning asking about the iMac not recognizing the DIMMs (foghorn blasts, no successful happy mac boot sounds). I immediately thought of your reader reports indicating problems with the compatibility so I asked him to take out the new DIMMs and put the original back in. After thinking about it for a second, I asked him to go back in and re-seat the new memory before trying the old stuff. He then mentioned he hadn't heard a 'click' as per the manual's instructions.
I told him to push a lot harder until it clicked in. He was afraid of breaking it, but I told him to use a significant amount of force, and it went in further with a click sound. The iMac then booted up with the new RAM without incident.

(Apple's doc on iMac (Mid 2007): Installing or replacing memory step 9 notes: "Once inserted, press the DIMM up into the slot. You'll hear a slight click when the memory is seated correctly." Always verify the dimm's contacts are all the way inserted/bottomed in the socket and locking tabs fully engaged on the dimm.-Mike)

Just a note that perhaps the mechanical tolerances are perhaps tighter than usual and to make sure the seating contacts are fully made before finding fault with the memory.
-Tony W."

I thought the same thing on Kelly's report yesterday (especially when 2 different brands of RAM on 2 Macs had the same problem), although he swears he fully seated his Kingston and MacSolutions 2GB SO-DIMMS. Definitely the first thing to verify/re-try though. Thanks for the note.

" I've got 3 G4 powermacs:
(2) 400 mHz PCI and (1) 466 nHz AGP
All running 10.4.10
All 3 recognized the Buffalo card as "airport" and connected to my airport basestation b+g without difficulty. (Many Broadcom based 802.11g cards have native support in Airport 3.x and later. See FAQ's networking section for item with recap of reports on this since OS X 10.2.6/Airport v3 was released. For macs that had an airport card slot, make sure to remove it before installing the 802.11g PCI card.-Mike)

This card was on sale at BestBuy for $29.xx and works like a charm!
Thanks, Steven "

Glad to see it's still on sale and they didn't change the chipset. This card is one of many 54G/802.11G models noted in the past here as being Airport 3.x and later natively compatible (broadcom chip based). The FAQ's item has it listed, it was last mentioned here last summer (in July 17th, 2006 news page) It was $29.xx at best buy back then also, although Bestbuy's online price is higher.
I just got a new Apple 802.11n base (new gigabit ethernet model) and I'm going to replace the PCI 802.11g card (Motorola model) with an 802.11N compatible card. (Hopefully later this week there will be another Mac dealer offering PCI and USB 802.11n cards compatible with the RALink drivers.)

"Hi. I was wondering whether anyone has tried out a Sony VGP-BRMP10 Bluetooth Presentation Controller with their bluetooth enabled Macs?
(Sony's online store page shows a $99.99 price on it today and it's about $30 higher at some other sources (like macmall).)
I'm hoping it's a standard HID device, but I can't find any commentary by Mac users using it. I'd like a bluetooth remote for my Keynote presentations and they don't exactly seem to be all that common.
-Matthew "

If you've tried this controller with your Bluetooth enabled Mac, let me know. Thanks.

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