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Posted by11 months ago

Does anyone know if these old AirPort Express devices can be used with the current OS? I would love to use it for streaming music to my stereo system with its audio output.

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r/mac - Does anyone know if these old AirPort Express devices can be used with the current OS? I would love to use it for streaming music to my stereo system with its audio output.

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· 11 mo. ago

Airports and Time Capsules are criminally underrated. Shame that apple discontinued them.

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· 11 mo. ago

I am also in a problem, how I will replace Time Capsule that has served my reliably for 12 years. Any recomnended routers?

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· 11 mo. ago

Plug and play worked fine for the most part, but the port was only fast ethernet (100mbp) and it was using a CPU for switching, barely cracking 50-60mbps.

Buy a netgear router, Ubiquiti access points and PoE switch of choice.

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· 11 mo. ago

Yes - if it’s a rev A I believe you need an older version of OS X To run it. I use my Power Mac G5 in the rare instances I need to reprogram it. If it’s a revision B it should work with even iOS

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· 11 mo. ago

I used those all the time back in the day, had 3 set up and running at once and streaming music from any app to any device with Airfoil. one of them was a Rev. A and I found a special version of AirPort Utility that got around the block to run on newer macOS.

that was years ago but there may be something similar now!

definitely worth a thorough Google Search. that's how I found it!

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Op · 11 mo. ago

Update: thanks to everyone who replied. Unfortunately I have the first gen model so it looks like I’ll need to dig up an old Mac to get it to work.

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· 11 mo. ago

Could you maybe run an old macos via emuation? It must be possible to emulate a PowerPC era Mac these days, I'd imagine.

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· 11 mo. ago

You can run the earlier version of airport utility with a patcher.

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· 11 mo. ago

If you can’t get it working, you can do v similar things with an raspberry pi and kodi is a v beginner friendly distro that ships with airplay audio support. Once upon a time air display worked too but not anymore.

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· 11 mo. ago

I actually just picked one of these up at a thrift store this week. Pro tip, use the airport utility for windows if you have access to to a PC or bootcamp or VM, to set it up.

I went down the rabbit hole of installing VM machines (only to find out that the guide I looked at was wrong and I needed get an OLDER version of OSX).

The current version of the utility for windows works on windows 7 or 10 and is easy to set up

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· 11 mo. ago · edited 11 mo. ago

Best underrated Apple device ever. I think the potentiality of the AirPort Express back in the days was unprecedented.

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· 11 mo. ago

MacBook Air

unprecedented?

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· 11 mo. ago

Impeach Airport Express

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· 11 mo. ago

Fake news!

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· 11 mo. ago

r/BrandNewSentence

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· 11 mo. ago

I bought one when they came out. My high school did not yet have WiFi, and so I would hide it around campus and use it on my laptop when taking notes. Gave the code to a few friends too. Let’s just say they did not have much in terms of network security at the time.

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