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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Hackintosh Thread 2015 - Change is a good thing.
 
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Something Else
Dec 27, 2004

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enMTW posted:

http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.0.0.M8souu&id=38195333521

That adapter does use an Apple card inside (for native Handoff) but that's where the similarities with the stuff on Amazon/eBay/etc end: the physical construction of the Taobao card is far superior, it can operate in any PCI-E slot (not just 1x slots), it works with all OS X compatible motherboards (the other adapters don't, oddly).

It even has a nicer USB header situation - straight USB Type B to USB header cable instead of header to header (the other card I linked has that, it is easy to pull the cable out by mistake).

In other words, it's better. It's cheap too - $51 shipped to USA through YouBuy (http://www.yoybuy.com/). Unlike the one I linked on Amazon, the card here is capable of 802.11ac and not just 802.11n - Bonus! Downside being that you have to wait for it to arrive. The Amazon one is Prime Eligible. Pick your poison, I guess.

I did this! Just slapped it into an x16 slot and plugged stuff in and it's working perfectly on the Mac side. Much better than the TPLink adapter I had in there previously. I will say that it cost me ~$75 shipped to Los Angeles, and took 13 days from order date to receipt, via Yoybuy and E-Express shipping. Now to see if it will work as well on the Windows side...

Edit: I'm downloading what seems to be the last Apple Boot Camp Support Software package (found here: https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1721?locale=en_US), anybody have a quick guide on which files to install and the best way to do that? I'm not using Boot Camp, it's a separate boot drive entirely. Instructions to get these working on PC are available via the description of the Wifi/BT Adapter Amazon link in the above-quoted section of OP On third thought, the instructions linked there are a little too :china:, but the drivers themselves seem legit. I'm just going to hope this one labeled Windows 7 works on Windows 8.1 Right the first time. It's easy to find the right drivers in the BCSP, despite Apple's instructions requiring a thumb drive etc.

Something Else fucked around with this message at 06:44 on Jul 2, 2015

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