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1 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
 external usb mac mini modem, 2007-07-03
I just recently got a used Mac mini from a cousin and too bad it does not have the old modem inside, I ordered an external modem from Amazon, when the modem arrived I just plug it and run, well it's amazing.
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
Apple Modem, 2007-06-26
This little gum-pack-sized modem works just fine, although I wish Apple had put a modem internally in their MacBooks. I don't use dial-up much, but it's nice to have in the boondocks. I wish it were in black, since my MacBook is that color (I'm a cross-platform junkie).
11 of 12 customers found the following review helpful:
 MacBook Pro Users Beware, 2007-05-22
Although it doesn't say so explicitly in Amazon's description of this item, the Apple MA034Z external modem will not work with the Intel processor inside the MacBook Pro.
I spent a very frustrated 4 days trying everything I could think of to make this baby work with my MacBook Pro 17" running OS X 10.4.9 -- including scouring the internet from various internet cafés and finding out that many MacBook owners have trouble with this product. It only connected successfully once out of (probably) 100 tries. Of course, that one time was while I was on the phone to my ISP's technical support representative, when together we concluded that the success of the connection had absolutely nothing to do with any of the changes we'd made to the settings. Sure enough, with the same settings it never worked again.
Thinking it was just a defective modem, I finally got the idea to try it on my PowerBook G4 laptop (which never needed an external modem because it has an internal built-in). There, it worked flawlessly every time.
In the process of returning it to Amazon, I noticed that on the modem packaging, it says, "Requires Macintosh computer with PowerPC G4 or later...." In other words, it is designed to work with a PowerPC processor, not the Intel. This is consistent with my experiment.
So, if you need an external modem for use with a PowerPC processor, this will undoubtedly work for you. But if you have an Intel machine, skip this product. I put the onus on Amazon for this. Their description of the product should at the very least include the wording on the package. (To Amazon's credit, though, they did admit their error and are refunding my postage for the return.)
For what it's worth, I finally got connected using an Apple M8799LL/A AirPort Extreme Base Station with Modem and Antenna Port, which I'd forgotten we already owned. It's obviously a more expensive solution for getting connected but if, like me, you live in the boonies and rely on dial-up, and if you can use the other features of an Airport (like having more than one computer in your household connected to a wireless network), it may be worth it.
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
Small and nice, 2007-05-12
It is small and very well designed, as always with apple. Works perfect.
6 of 6 customers found the following review helpful:
Great modem, too bad Apple didn't include it internally..., 2007-05-06
Apple's USB modem works fine on my new MacBook Pro, but it's too bad that they decided not to include the modem internally, since laptops are often used for travel, and outside of Silicon Valley and the mojor metropolitan areas dial-up is often the only option.
One more bit of electronics rolling around in my laptop case to keep track of, along with my USB camera card reader, another external bit which Apple decided not to include into their already expensive MacBook Pro.
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