A look at Apple's second quarter unit sales: "Apple on Wednesday offered results for the second quarter of its fiscal year 2004. The company posted a US$46 million profit on more than $1.9 billion in total revenue, moving 749,000 computers in the process." [MacCentral]

I always go for the Apple base station, myself, when recommending these to clients: - They can be bridged so that signals get repeated and can travel farther. External antennas have proven to be a complete failure at extending signals, according to my experience (and according to EVERY review for these antennas - Dr. Bott has some explaining to do!). - The hig-end model has PRINTER SHARING built in, and it's ridiculously simple. Plug a USB printer into the base station, and it just shows up in every Mac's Print dialog via Rendezvous. - Setup is usually under three minutes, and then it just works, forever. PC-oriented Linksys and others simply can't compete. It can take HOURS in a mixed Mac and PC environment to set up PC-oriented wireless hardware. Sure, you can buy a cheap base station, but you get what you pay for. I like the Apple base station because it is a premium item with premium value. There's a big difference between cost and value.