Put the screw back in and again be careful not to over tighten it, its small and doesn't need much torque.

If it doesn't remove the gum and apply it to the bottom of your new card.

The new card should have some new gum already on it.

There is some non conductive gum on the bottom of the card.

So after you pop off the 3 wired, remove the one screw holding the card in and carefully lift it up slightly and remove it.

If you damage these you not be able to get them back on and will be in some trouble.

You need a very small plastic pry bar to pop off the 3 antenna wires attached to the card.

The bottom cover comes of with a T 1.5 torx bit.

The screws also are super small and probably easily damaged.

You will need some special torx bits to remove the cover and the card.

I needed a magnifying glass a bright led work light and needle.

The things you need to work with are small, very very small.

Once you get the right card you are ready for some surgery.

The card on amazon should list compatible chassis.

Make sure you research which card you need for 802.11 ac.

You basically need something along the lines of Bcm94360csax.

I bought mine for 30 dollars while other charged as much as 80 dollars for the same one.

Amazon stock the wifi card and there is a big range in price.

You will need this to ensure the wifi card you buy will fit your chassis.

You need to look up your exact mac model. How awesome, so when my hard disk performance deteriorates, I don't have to throw out my mac and buy a new one Party !!! The internal wifi adapter along with what looks like an m2 ssd card are in fact removable. Happily it turns out this in not entirely the case. In early 2013 mac and prior they only supported n speed.Īt the store I was told everything in the retina was soldered in. I don't know all the differences but I was not happy to discover my mac didn't support the super fast wifi speeds now available over 802.11 ac. I have often asked myself what is apple doing to these new retina macs that come out as they didn't seem any different than mine. So, this topic was very poorly documented on the internet in general and someone needs to make credible information searchable on the internet. I know this is a FreeBSD Forum, but this is the Off Topic Area and while I use a mac nearly exclusively for my personal workstation, FreeBSD is my server choice.

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