Apple Airport Express

Launch price £90.00

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Stuff says

Don’t judge the Airport Express on looks alone. Not only is it great in the home, but it makes a better travelling companion than Huckleberry Fin.

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We feel your disappointment. You’ve removed the Airport Express from its iPod-like packaging assuming that you’re the proud owner of Geekdom’s unsung superstar. But instead, you seem to be clutching a white three-pin plug. Get over it: in the next week, that little white box will change your life forever.

Travelling companion
Imagine arriving at your Euro hotel, but the room has one of those stupidly short strings of Ethernet cable, which forces you to hunch over the coffee-stained desk in the corner.

Airport Express to the rescue: connect it to the Ethernet cable, let it sniff your laptop’s 802.11g wireless signal, then bathe in 54MBps surfing from the polyester cosiness of the bed.

Nice little home-maker
Now get back home, and realise you’ve brought back the bed-surfing habit from your time in the Euro bedroom. Only thing is, your Airport Extreme base station is downstairs, and the signal in your bedroom is showing one bar, reducing you to dribbling dial-up speeds.

Time for the Express to do its thing: set it up to extend the
Extreme’s wireless coverage and marvel at the Zen simplicity of the set-up from your laptop. Now just think of the joy you’ll bring your partner, once she realises that you’ll be by her side through the night, tap-tapping away.