AirDrop (Mac OS X)

AirDrop is a Wi-Fi ad-hoc service in Apple's Mac OS X Lion 10.7.

AirDrop is limited to these models and newer:

• MacBook Pro (Late 2008 or newer)
  • The MacBook Pro (17-Inch Late 2008) and the white MacBook (Late 2008) do not support AirDrop.
• MacBook Air (Late 2010 or newer)
• MacBook (Late 2008 or newer)*
• iMac (Early 2009 or newer)
• Mac Mini (Mid 2010 or newer)
• Mac Pro (Early 2009 with AirPort Extreme card, or Mid 2010)

AirDrop is also available on Hackintoshes (generic PCs which have had MacOS X Lion installed on them) and which have AirDrop-supported WiFi cards, such as Broadcom's 4322/94322. Despite Apple's claimed restrictions, hackers have found that Airdrop can be enabled on any Mac running OS X Lion, and will work over ethernet as well. It can be enabled with a shell command.^[1]

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