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802.11ac and BT 4.2 are here for unibody MBPs and A1342 MB!
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Here's a teaser pic of the new prototype for the 13" owners who have been waiting 
This means the subwoofer stays?Here's a teaser pic of the new prototype for the 13" owners who have been waiting
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Just out of curiosity, this won’t work for the strange 2008 and 2009 models with the WiFi card in the clutch cover will it?
First board is done and working; installed in a 13" A1278
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Yes it did, prices on electronic components and labor time has gone up per board.
[doublepost=1562418167][/doublepost]When will the next batch be available surprise you don’t do preorders to help with over head
Next batch should be within 2-3 weeks (over estimated).
I've found preorders to be counter productive when delays happen and people will want refunds after about the two week waiting mark. This was in the past with other products.
Good news! 13" owners won't have to modify anything; I'll be including a bracket in each order so you don't have to trim your original AirPort card bracket anymore.
I have the early 2011 MBP, MacBookPro8,1 with the dosdude Mojave patched OS 10.14
Will this have card keep that ultra compatibility with AirPods going that Apple advertises?
Will this have card keep that ultra compatibility with AirPods going that Apple advertises?
It should! The person who bought the first 13" card should be reporting back with how the install went soon.
First off I'm by no means a computer person. I read the forum post and figured this would be an easy upgrade to my Mac. Watched a few YouTube videos, slept at a Holiday Inn Express and took the plunge. Plug and Play on Mojave 10.14.5 MBP 13" 9,2! Computer recognized card right away. System Info Supported PHY Modes 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac. Included bracket fit perfectly, routed wires like in posted picture, no issues. Took about 15 minutes to install, extra time not to break the connectors. Will differently be doing a card in the 15" when available!
I am running an early 2011 15" MBP 8,2. I have previously installed a 1TB SSD, and have updated the wifi card to the "CAX" version about 2 or 3 years ago. Running Continuity Activation Tool (CAT) on High Sierra, I have all of the handoff and continuity functionality except apple watch wakeup. So, my question is how or whether this newer ac version of wifi card will be recognized without having to uninstall CAT and/or the kexts that come with it. I do not want to lose what capabilities I have. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks.
I may be wrong, but you shouldn't need to use continuity activation tool with my card, since the hardware on the card itself supports it. @highvoltage12v would be able to confirm though for sure when he chimes in.
Looks just like the photo troop231 posted. Only difference I put a piece of automotive fabric tape around the connection. After a few hours surfing the web last night I can tell a difference.
Any reason for the tape over the connection? If it's really sticky and you need to remove the card in the future for cleaning of the laptop, that could be problematic.
From what I recall, starting with 10.13+ no continuity and handoff patches are needed anymore.
EDIT: After finally getting my 2011 A1286 to boot I came to the conclusion that Apple enables/Disables Handoff/Continuity based off of the Hardware Identifier. So even with the a Bluetooth 4.0/4.2 card installed A mac such as the MacBook Pro 8,2 will need to have it's files patched including Kext files such as IO80211.Family kext. I just verified this by running Continuity Activation Tool.app letting it patch files, then restoring back to a stock IO80211Family. kext and Handoff stopped working with the stock file.
So the TLDR is yes a Continuity/Handoff Patcher is needed still; and works in High Sierra.
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Highvoltage: Thank you very much for your response. That is what I was thinking.
Can you try this, put back the stock kext and modify this file to read "true" for your board id.
/System/Library/Frameworks/IOBluetooth.framework/Versions/A/Resources/SystemParameters.plist
You can find your board-id by using option 2 in the CAT tool, mine for example is
94245B3640C91C81
then run this command and restart (replace with your board-id)
sudo -E perl -pi -e "s/\Mac-00BE6ED71E35EB86/\Mac-yourboard-id/" /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AirPortBrcm4360.kext/Contents/MacOS/AirPortBrcm4360
This basically tells Mac your board-id is compatible with continuity. If you use Mojave and later you need to do this step with CAT anyway.