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Swiss Apple Store page tips the 802.11n Airport Express

by Michael Rose Mar 15th 2008 at 8:15PM

It's easy to envy the Swiss, what with the fine chocolate and the neutrality and such. Now, another reason to long for the refined air of the Alps: the Swiss version of the Apple Store website is indicating availability on the supercharged 802.11n version of the Airport Express, as yet unnannounced in the US of A (translation here). With the domestic Apple Store showing 1-2 week ship times for the AE, we might well expect to see the new device next week, possibly on, I dunno, Tuesday.

An Apple-branded 802.11n router that supports AirTunes and printer sharing, all for $99? Sounds good to me. Hopefully, not too good to be true.

(Just noticing that Apple's press photo of the AE, reproduced here, shows it plugged into the top outlet -- blocking the lower socket completely. Aesthetics over functionality, anyone?)

Update 11:30 pm ET: Looks like someone got threatened with a Swiss Army knife, as the Swiss store has been normalized back to the current model of the Airport Express. You can see the translated page screenshot, as it was a few hours ago, after the break.

Thanks Thomas and James!

[via MacGeneration / Macrumors]

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robogobo

Awesome opportunity for Americans to show their ignorance about Switzerland. Nice work.

March 17 2008 at 1:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
daba

Forget that last comment. :)

March 17 2008 at 12:13 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Laurence

Is it just me or are the LOLCats references in the post images making their way onto TUAW a lot lately? I love LOLCats and I love Apple.. but they are two things that shouldn't be combined, IMO... especially on a respectable site like TUAW.

March 16 2008 at 10:08 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
PSM

About friggin time we got an Airport Express update. One of my favorite devices, but it's always seemed a little buggy to me. I hope they've done something to fix that. I hope the $99 is true, I remember paying at least double that when it came out. Am I making that up?

March 16 2008 at 12:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
akatsuki

They should add a MagSafe cord to it to replace the standard brick so that travelers don't need to bring both.

March 16 2008 at 9:53 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Andreas Fink

First. the socket picture is totally nonsense. Even the picture shows the two paralell US style plug, not the swiss/european style 2 round plug socket.

Second. 802.11n sounds simply like an error by a webdesigner ( copy & paste is so easy). On the other hand it would make sense to move everything to 802.11n as the MacBook Air will definitively want it when you want to boot of a remote CD.

March 16 2008 at 9:49 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
SoloMalee

Nice...this explains why MediaMarkt are selling Airport Express cheap at the moment (99CHF).

Cool!

March 16 2008 at 4:45 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
daba

I absolutely love swiss people....

wait a min, i am swiss.
now that i'm living in nz, i have people sending my chocolate!

lol

March 16 2008 at 2:57 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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artifex

that would make me love them, too!

March 16 2008 at 9:53 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dave

I figured this was imminent. I was going to pick up an Airport Express the other day to add some airtunes speakers in the garage, and neither the Apple Store, nor the local Best Buy had Airport Express units in stock. Considering two days earlier the Apple Store had about 50 of them on the shelf, it seemed odd to be out of stock in so short a time.

March 16 2008 at 12:39 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ch02ce

This appeared briefly on the Hong Kong store last week as well. Someone on MacRumors posted a link to it when it came up.

March 16 2008 at 12:39 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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