Is it worth buying the Airport N Upgrade.

Hi,
Is it worth buying the N upgrade for my Macbook. I have an Intel Core Duo and no problems with my network e.g. no network drop outs etc.
Would the N upgrade boost my network performance or anything else?
Thanks,
Andrew.

I have an Airport Extreme (802.11n) and a C2D Black Macbook, and this is my first experience using "802.11n".
Compared to 802.11b/g, there's no difference in internet browsing speeds--it's no faster on my Mac than it is on my XP notebook (802.11g). However, I will tell you that 802.11a (5Ghz) gets a lot less interference and the range is mildly increased for me (avg. 1 more bar than 802.11g). To my knowledge, the original Core Duo Macbooks do support 802.11a
File transfer is a whole other story... I run a 40GB hard drive off of the Airport Extreme and you can see a HUGE difference between my Macbook (running 802.11n) vs. my XP machine (802.11g).
Unless you are doing a lot of file transfer between machines on your network, it will not make any difference.
Black C2D Macbook 13"   Mac OS X (10.4.9)   14" HP Pavilion DV1000 CoreDuo XP SP2 iPod 30GB 5.5Gen

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