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2008 iMac airport card upgrade

Hey all,

I have an early 2008 2.8GHz C2D iMac, and my wifi card is starting to give out on me. This would make sense, as it’s the original card that the system came with, and it is 10 years old!

I wanted to know if I could replace my old card with the Airport Extreme card found in the ‘09, ‘10, and ‘11 iMac models. I figure if I’m going to replace it, I might as well go with a slightly newer model that would fit the airport connector on my Mac.

Any advice would be appreciated.

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You can take a look at dosdude1’s Sierra, High Sierra, and Mojave patch tools that let you put those versions of macOS on unsupported Macs. If you are unsure if your Mac is compatible or not, just download the Patch Tool and when you open the patch tool, if your Mac is compatible there will be no warning but if your Mac is not compatible with the patch there will be a warning.

Sierra: http://dosdude1.com/sierrapatch.html

High Sierra: http://dosdude1.com/highsierra/

Mojave: http://dosdude1.com/mojave/

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@ajcooke01 - This series RAM is very limited. The newer MacOS’s really need the bigger RAM footprint. I try not to push these type of solutions on anything less than i5 based system.

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@danj My teacher had an old Core 2 Duo iMac from 2009 and I got Mojave on it using the patch too. It works just fine, even with 4 GB of RAM. Anything older then Core 2 Duo I would agree with you about not pushing too hard.

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Here’s the needed parts: iMac 2007 and iMac 2008 – Apple Broadcom BCM94360CD – 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac with Bluetooth 4.0

Do keep in mind your system can’t support the newer MacOS’s, OS-X El Capitan 10.11.x is as high as you can go.

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Thanks for the helpful reply Dan!

That card you linked will definitely work, but the price is a tad steep. I was thinking about something like this card, pulled from a 2009 working iMac: https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=....

Do you think that would work?

Not to worry Mr. Cooke, I’m not trying to upgrade this machine past El Capitan. It works fine there so no need to fix what ain’t broken. I just need a new WiFi card since it’s gotten to the point that I can only use Ethernet on the iMac for a working internet connection.

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The correct WiFi board for your system Mac Airport Card review the compatibility listing.

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