ok i have a question. on apple, how do i make my apple laptop wireless and waht is all the steps and what do i have to buy to make it wireless!
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First, you'll need an airport card or an airport extreme card installed in your mac (assuming you have a mac that's 2000 or newer).  You can pick one up at apple.com or at your local apple store.  They run around $70 to $100.  I got mine with a student discount.  After that is in all you need to do is follow the instructions for installing it.  after that just pop in the installation CD that came with it and follow the on screen instructions.  If you need help just call apple.  Then all you need is a router with wireless capabilities.  Look for one that says something like 802.11b/g of just 802.11g.  That will also come with instructions on how to set it up on a mac.  Once it's set up you're ready to go.
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If your laptop doesn't have built in 802.11, you're going to need a Wireless USB 2.0 Adapter to plug into an available USB port.  This will make your laptop wireless capable.\n\nhttp://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=6825233&type=product&id=1091101527998\n\nMake sure your USB ports are 2.0 and not 1.1.  Depending on the age of your latop, it may not be able to handle the 2.0 adapter.
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Here's a link to Airport For Windows on Apples Support Discussion board.\n\nhttp://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1014\n\nI wish I could help you more, but I have only set up Airport for Apples, and I don't know PCs that well. Good luck!!!
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You can get what you need at Walmart, a wireless router, card and just slip the disk from the router box into your main computer, it will tell you how to connect everything.
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Which ever Mac you choose, yes. I just graduated, and did the same research.  Especially if your campus has wireless access all over the campus. All of the best students that I knew had Mac's. You can go to the University website for info about computer requirements. You can also go to the Apple website for special discounts for students.
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You need not buy wireless card to your laptop. Your laptop comes with wireless card. So you just buy wireless router and then connect it to your laptop. You can also connect your desktop through this router. Normally it will have wired ports.
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yes. just call your isp to configure the Mac for manual connection even you're using a wireless cable. sometimes that would ask for some IP address, that you need to provide for you to connect.
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If you still know which cable was plugged into your computer locate it. Then figure out your wireless network settings in the wireless config part of the control panel. Do you have a wireless card installed, and a wireless router. If don't you are out of luck but if you do you should be able to see the technical information on your wireless device in the system part of control panel. Then look at your network settings and see if networks are registering. If so choose one and click connect. Your last resort if that does not work is either call the guy that installed the system and ask him for help or call the owners of the devices that you are trying to use.
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Mac with Intel is wonderful.  New Macbook laptop is sooo easy to use.  You have the option to run windows or tiger,  Software is simple, I am able to transfer my ipod between a windows computer and this laptop with no problems, so It handles some windows software with no issue.  Stick with a mac and stay away from the dark world of windows!!!
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*smiles at Apple reference*\nwhen I was looking around before buying this laptop, i did wander into an apple store out of curiosity\n\nwalked out again about five minutes later and didn't seriously consider an ibook in any of my further reckoning :-)\n\nFor the uses you've specified, you'd be as well to buy second hand if money is an issue - anything you can get these days --- for all of Intel's hard sell TV adverts --- is about 3 or 4 times more powerful than you really need for any of that. But, if you can afford it, you may as well get a nicely specified machine; unlike getting a 4x more powerful car, you won't be spending a fortune on fuel or insurance, or suffering from cripplingly heavy handling or go deaf. A well made modern machine will burn up no more, or possibly less power than a much, much slower one from a few years ago, and weigh less / be quieter too.\n\nFirst question - what are your priorities re: portability vs capability? Will you be carrying it around a lot all day, doing a lot of work off the battery and mainly with lightweight files kept on the hard disc, or will it be mostly sat at home on a desk, plugged in, doing a fair bit of media work, playing DVDs etc? That's the main tradeoff these days, as there's an awful lot of choice in terms of form-factor. Used to be that a laptop was a known quantity in terms of size - like two letter writing pads stacked on each other. Not any more.\n\nPersonally I went for the lightweight portable route, as I needed to do a fair bit of wordprocessing and other office stuff on the road (well, the train, and around all manner of random places) and needed something a bit thinner, but no more spread out than that old 2-pad electronic jalopy (£40, used, with a good battery - bargain!) I'd been using before, as my arms were tired but the available work spaces were tight as rubber gloves on wet hands. A modern thin-bordered 12" screen offers a lot more working area (almost to the level of a once-common 14" tube monitor) than an older laptop, in the same size case - it's easily enough for me, and has the same resolution (same conceptual desktop space for windows etc) as my mother's heavier 14". Besides, if you're typing, you're only looking at a tiny, tiny part of it at a time; the old one had about half the pixel resolution of this and was still OK for writing lengthy reports!\n\nI've sacrificed a bit of potential screen area, a bit of hard drive space and CPU speed, one speaker (internal mono's not an issue if you rarely use it without (stereo) headphones) and an internal DVD drive in order to get something sleek and lightweight with a phenomenal battery runtime without paying over the odds; but with a little research and in-store testing, made sure the actual performance wasn't suffering much (quick HD even if "small", large and fast memory, current-generation albeit lower speed CPU, good graphics chip, good solid typist's keyboard, standard width screen to maximise the "useful" WP space). Plus it's a tablet PC... I can sign my name in documents, or flip it over and hold it like an actual paper pad and use the pen as a mouse... and as I waited for the easter sales, I got a cracking bundle deal with an (nice, but very bulky and therefore stay-at-home) external dual layer DVD writer, TV tuner card, etc.\n\nAlternatively, you may want to watch DVDs or not have brilliant sight, and particularly burn a lot of discs... an internal drive and a large screen will be particular boons here, and you'll likely get an even better keyboard into the bargain, with massive battery life or pen functions being minor concerns. They can go all the way up to 17" widescreen, with high quality integrated speakers etc, and what is more or less a full sized desktop keyboard attached --- becoming basically portable desktop PCs, in the same way that a 14" TV with a pop-out handle at the to
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If you are talking about a home network or lan just buy the wireless equipment. In the longrun it will cost less than a wired network and you wont have all that wire running everywhere.
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You can buy a wireless router to connect wireless devices within your home/office, such as MP3 players, a laptop in another room, etc.\n\nHowever, you still need an ISP to connect to the internet.  They act as your gateway, connecting without them is impossible (for all but the most uber of geeks, anyway).
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Sure desktops can do wireless.  There are PCI wireless cards, as well as USB wireless devices.  Almost no desktops come with wireless built-in though.  That seems to be a feature of laptops.
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Best way? Get a router. If your laptop is wireless ready get a wireless router. If not, either get a wireless card for the laptop or buy a wired router. Wired routers are cheap! You can also buy a special usb cable to do this but its a pain, the cable will cost as much as a wired router, it uses internet connection sharing which is not worth a hoot and will slow you down and by the time you get done fighting with it to get it to work you would have been money ahead to go with the router.
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you need a usb wireless 802.11 g adaptor (cost around 15 pound), a wireless router (cost u around 45 pound) and obviously internet connection with modem.\n\nNow just connect a wireless router with ur internet modem, configure it according to the instructions give in its manual.\n\nnow connect and install usb wireless adaptor with ur computer and its done. \n\njust serch for wireless networks from the usb wireless adaptor s/w and connect
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I assume you are looking for buying advice?\n\nBuy a MacBook\nhttp://store.apple.com/133-622/WebObjects/australiastore?family=MBSummerPush&cid=AOSAA0000018626\n\n///
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Why not!\nYou can create your own Wireless Network on an XP Machine, say, MyNetwork, go up into wireless advanced properties and check the box which says something about peer-to-peer adhoc network or something as such, now from your girl's Mac search over for other Networks around, the notebook might definately detect your network around the vicinity, all you gotta do is connect and authenticate...\n\nI have shared stuff with a Mac on Cable, and I doubt that the wireless network might not work, but hey!!! do give it a try...\n\nInjoy...