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Add Note Step 9

  • Lift the guts of the base station out of the casing.

  • There are two large blocks of aluminum on the upper case that Apple is using as heat sinks. The upper case alone is .9 lbs-- over half the weight!

  • There are three antennas mounted internally: one on front (white cable), left (grey cable), and right (black cable). They all have standard antenna conectors on them.

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Add Note Step 10

  • This is the top of the logic board. Interesting things: 3V (clock?) battery, two Samsung memory chips, and imprinted Apple part #820-1942-A. The processor is covered by a heat sink.

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Add Note Step 11

  • This is the bottom of the logic board. Not much to see here--something large covered by another heat sink. At the top right is a plastic cover over the LED. Four ethernet ports, one USB port, a power jack, and a reset button. The Apple part number on the airport card is 603-9396-A.

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Add Note Step 12

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Flag Reply by nullx86 Aug 17 @ 7:53 PM

Any clue as to what the processor is on it? I wonder if its possible to use on of those Airport Extreme Mini PCI cards in a DIY Router kit?

Flag Reply by Chris Green 4 days ago

Quote from nullx86:

Any clue as to what the processor is on it? I wonder if its possible to use on of those Airport Extreme Mini PCI cards in a DIY Router kit?

Most likely, it is a proprietary ARM procesor.