The wifi card sits below the top of the data doubler I have. I believe it is the camera wire that I have sitting on top of the wifi card and that causes the bottom lid to sit slightly high however, even the short screw easily snugs the cover flat and flush.
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The wifi card sits below the top of the data doubler I have. I believe it is the camera wire that I have sitting on top of the wifi card and that causes the bottom lid to sit slightly high however, even the short screw easily snugs the cover flat and flush.
I just wondered, because in my testing with a real optical drive, too much pressure put on the optical drive causes disc insertions and ejections to behave not as expected, which is why I wondered if the bottom lid sat flat without any screws inserted?
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Hi, I do not and don't plan to since there is no graphics acceleration for the discrete card.
If that changes I may install it.
High Sierra with latest beta updates from Apple works great on this. I really hope that Apple releases another 17 inch laptop soon as this is the longest I've kept my main laptop in production.
I'm pleased to report success on my 17" 2010 MBP. I ended up using 3M Scotch packaging tape on the underside of the card. Since the 2010 has only 2 wifi antenna wires and 1 bluetooth wire, here is what I recommend for connecting to the new card (which has 3 wifi and 1 bluetooth):
Bluetooth goes to J3;
Connect the J1 wire on the old card to J0 on the new card;
Connect the J2 wire on the old card to J2 on the new card;
Leave J1 empty.
These connections permit the computer to connect to 5gHz networks and I am seeing connection speeds of 500-900 Mbps.
Bluetooth goes to J3;
Connect the J1 wire on the old card to J0 on the new card;
Connect the J2 wire on the old card to J2 on the new card;
Leave J1 empty.
These connections permit the computer to connect to 5gHz networks and I am seeing connection speeds of 500-900 Mbps.
Awesome, so there were no fitment issues and the flat flex connector lined up perfectly?
Sure - here are 2 photos. Plenty of room inside the 17" for the install.
@flehman The flex cable looks great and doesn't appear to be under any stress; it looks like I placed the flat flex connector in the right spot on the PCB
All I did was connect the flex cable to the logic board and card and then let it lay where it needed to along the edge of the optical drive. Then stuck it down in that spot.
I should also note that even with just 2 WiFi antennas connected to J0 and J2 everything comes up green. AC WiFi, Bluetooth 4.2, Handoff/Continuity, and Airdrop are firing on all cylinders.
One point of difficulty I ran into was with Apple Watch Unlock. The checkbox was appearing as an option, but when I checked the box it would hang at “Turning on” and not finish setup. I tried deinstalling and reinstalling CAT but that didn’t have any effect (in fact CAT threw out some errors - seems like it didn’t completely recognize the card). I finally got it to finish by turning off the WiFi on my watch, phone, and laptop and then turning them back on while sitting closer to my router. I am thinking maybe one of the devices was on the “n” instead of “ac” because I was on the other side of the house but who knows - Apple Watch Unlock has always been a little finicky.
We are having issues with our local USPS processing center lately, so we are asking people here if they would be okay if we switch our shipping provider to UPS. The downside is that the cost will increase a bit and delivery times may be an extra day or two.
Browsing reddit, other people have had issues with USPS the past year and it's going downhill. The 'In Transit, Arriving Late' statuses are very frustrating to all of us.
Browsing reddit, other people have had issues with USPS the past year and it's going downhill. The 'In Transit, Arriving Late' statuses are very frustrating to all of us.
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I'm kindof confused now, did you want UPS? I have to enable it on my site but I know most people despise paying more for shipping.
Unfortunately, if I continue to use USPS, I have to ship some buyers two cards due to the terrible service of USPS as of late, and they return the first one that shows up a few weeks later. That affects my inventory for other buyers.
I just enabled UPS.