“The AirPort Express is the product from Apple that is… a fully-capable, mobile 802.11g wireless access point that can also stream music from iTunes to your home stereo. In addition, it can extend the range of an AirPort Base Station and support print jobs over the network to a USB printer,” Eric Bangeman reports for Ars Technica.
“In testing it on both a Windows laptop and a PowerBook, we wanted to determine the extent of Apple’s cross-platform support. Does it work as well out-of-the-box whether you’re a Mac or Windows user? The short answer is yes. The long answer is that Windows users will sometimes have to go through a few extra steps to achieve the same result as someone using Mac OS X,’ Bangeman reports.
[MacDailyNews Take: Isn’t that usually the case for Windows vs. Mac OS X?]
Bangeman give the Airport Express a score of 8 out of 10 and finds that “for a multipurpose device like the Express, the price tag is justified if you are going to take advantage of more than one of its features.”
Full review here.