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Product Description

The Apple USB Modem is a simple, one-piece external USB modem that's perfect for people who use a dial-up connection to access the Internet and do email. It's small, light, easy to install and even easier to use. Just plug it into the USB port, then connect a phone line to the other end. Open the networking preference panel in Mac OS X, enter connection information, and click connect.

Customer Reviews:

• Small and nice
  It is small and very well designed, as always with apple. Works perfect....more info
• Apple External Modem Review
  This modem works great. Total plug and play. Now that some genius at Apple decided we no longer need a phone connector, this really fills the need if you have to send a real fax....more info
• works great
  I ordered this for my son, who was just switching to a mac (mini).
  he plugged it in, followed the configuration info, and was on the air in minutes. Bought it because it was apple, and yes, it pays to get the apple products. didn't really find a better price for apple or non-apple that had any decent reviews.... so this is a product well recommended.
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• MacBook Pro Users Beware
  Although it doesn't say so explicitly in Amazon's description of this item, the Apple MA034Z external modem will not work with the Intel processor inside the MacBook Pro.
  
  I spent a very frustrated 4 days trying everything I could think of to make this baby work with my MacBook Pro 17" running OS X 10.4.9 -- including scouring the internet from various internet caf¨¦s and finding out that many MacBook owners have trouble with this product. It only connected successfully once out of (probably) 100 tries. Of course, that one time was while I was on the phone to my ISP's technical support representative, when together we concluded that the success of the connection had absolutely nothing to do with any of the changes we'd made to the settings. Sure enough, with the same settings it never worked again.
  
  Thinking it was just a defective modem, I finally got the idea to try it on my PowerBook G4 laptop (which never needed an external modem because it has an internal built-in). There, it worked flawlessly every time.
  
  In the process of returning it to Amazon, I noticed that on the modem packaging, it says, "Requires Macintosh computer with PowerPC G4 or later...." In other words, it is designed to work with a PowerPC processor, not the Intel. This is consistent with my experiment.
  
  So, if you need an external modem for use with a PowerPC processor, this will undoubtedly work for you. But if you have an Intel machine, skip this product. I put the onus on Amazon for this. Their description of the product should at the very least include the wording on the package. (To Amazon's credit, though, they did admit their error and are refunding my postage for the return.)
  
  For what it's worth, I finally got connected using an Apple M8799LL/A AirPort Extreme Base Station with Modem and Antenna Port, which I'd forgotten we already owned. It's obviously a more expensive solution for getting connected but if, like me, you live in the boonies and rely on dial-up, and if you can use the other features of an Airport (like having more than one computer in your household connected to a wireless network), it may be worth it. ...more info
• Apple Modem
  This little gum-pack-sized modem works just fine, although I wish Apple had put a modem internally in their MacBooks. I don't use dial-up much, but it's nice to have in the boondocks. I wish it were in black, since my MacBook is that color (I'm a cross-platform junkie)....more info
• Apple USB modem works great
  This modem worked great out of the box (bag?). I took a chance that this cute little match to my new MacBook w/Intel processor would work well, as the reviews seemed to be 50/50. So far so good. Yes, some of us still have only slow dial-up. The MacBook processor is fast, so surfing is faster than on my G4 tower and its internal modem. Speaking of which, it would've been nice if an internal modem had come with MacBook or if the USB type had been half the price, but other than that, no complaints. ...more info
• Plugged it in and works
  Purchased to be used with both MBP & iMac for faxing docs direct from computer. Configured quickly with very little effort. No issues.
  
  Only complaint is with Apple -- why couldn't they include this little part on the machines??...more info
• Mac External Modem
  This modem seemed to make the dial up slower than ever, could not use it....more info