There is often only praise for Apple’s products. I have a MacBook Pro, an iPhone, a Time Capsule and an Airport Express (APX) and am mostly sold on their benefits over the alternatives. This is fine, since in all cases I have generally paid more than the alternatives and so expect a better experience, but when things do not work it is far more annoying.

The APX is designed to stream music from iTunes over a wireless or wired network to a stereo, thus avoiding the need for unnecessary wires coming out of the Mac. It just doesn’t seem to work though. Connecting to it is slow and in some cases impossible. Songs cut out or deteriorate in quality and often stop streaming in between songs.
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