

For instance, the chipset manufacturer Ralink didn't release drivers for OS X Mountain Lion until October 2012, four whole months after the official July 25 release of the operating system. from Mountain Lion to Mavericks), you'll have to wait for WiFi chipset manufacturers to update their drivers appropriately.
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Instead, every time Mac OS X gets a big update (e.g. You have to wait for new drivers. The lack of native support for USB WiFi adapters means that you can't count on your adapter to work between different versions of Mac OS X.Although this is not very hard to do, it can get to be very annoying if you reboot your computer frequently. You have to turn on a utility every time. In addition to installing drivers, in order to get WiFi working correctly with a USB adapter, you will have to turn on a third-party WiFi utility app every time you boot your Hackintosh.

This brings its fair share of disadvantages:

This is not the case for USB adapters, which always require third-party drivers. As we discussed in last year's article, some PCI adapters are "natively" supported in Mac OS X, meaning that they will work on your Hackintosh automatically. In many cases, buying a PCI WiFi adapter would actually be a better choice. That being said, using a USB WiFi adapter isn't for everybody. This means that you might not even have to buy a new adapter for your Hackintosh if you already own a USB WiFi adapter, there's a decent chance that it'll work in Mac OS X. By using this device, you get faster internet so you can enjoy connectivity while on the go. The Edimax EW-7833UAC AC1750 fuses excellent features to extend your WiFi up to 1300 Mbps (on 5Ghz devices), and up to 450 Mbps on 2.4Ghz.
