I came home a few days ago to see the orange blinking light on my Airport Extreme box, that was too good to last I thought, expecting some grief getting it going again.

As I woke up my laptop, it became apparent the Wifi was still working, “odd” I thought, then the Airport Utility booted all by itself to inform me an update was available and I should install it, which I did. Once I did, I got back the nice green light!

To someone who has only ever had Apple Wifi, this may not be impressive, but to me, someone who has struggled with Linksys crap for a decade, this was a revelation, I’m used to having to navigate crappy support sites to download ‘frmw2_39b.zip’ or whatever, but the Apple one finds, downloads and installs it for me! Just like my Mac does!

Just when I couldn’t love it more, it does this. It’s very Apple, even the firmware upgrade is trivial and simple.