Saturday, June 16, 2012

New Updated Airport Express - still $99

At WWDC 2012, this week, Apple announced an update of its little Wi-Fi router, the AirPort Express Base Station.
 
 The new model is no longer a wall wart design, instead taking on the square, low-profile look of Apple's Extreme Base Station and Time Capsule. With the redesign, it has both 10/100 Ethernet LAN and WAN jacks and one audio jack to connect to speakers  The audio jack works with standard analog minijack cables or optical minijacks, for an all-digital connection. You can use any iOS device (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch) or an iTunes-equipped computer on the AirPort's network to stream music to that device using Apple's AirPlay feature. The big upgrade this time around is dual-band 802.11n -  it runs 2.4GHz and 5GHz wireless frequencies simultaneously, so it'll automatically connect to the one that will give you the fastest connection. Otherwise pretty much the same handy little device.

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