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Post #2 by mrwalker
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Yep, quite a few.

The old 'graphite' model only has one ethernet socket, so you need an additional hub or broadband router if you want to share with any non-airport machines.

The new 'snow' model supports apple's rendevous automatic setup (so I hear, I have the graphite model).

The old ones only support 40-bit encryption, the new ones 128 bit. You can screen connections to the hard-wired mac addresses in your airport cards, which is good enough for me.

I've found my graphite one a little inconsistent to say the least. Unless you get a really good deal, get the new model or one of the many non-apple ones.

The recepttion on my DVI powerbook isn't great. Non-apple ones are said to be better.

I don't think I'd pay the full price for a new one given that all it does is eliminate one cable & create loads of problems, but now I have it I wouldn't like to go back!

-mrwalker
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