USB "N" enabler for "Old" MacBooks?

We bought two MacBooks a long, long, long time ago (June, 2006), and now we find that there's no real point in buying the new Airport Base Station, as the internal Airport card doesn't support 802.11N, and there never will be one that will.
Does anyone know of a currently selling USB device that will enable a plain old Core Duo MacBook to access the "N" wireless?

the internal Airport card doesn't support 802.11N, and
there never will be one that will.
Dont be so sure. People are reporting that if you install one of the new Mac Pro extreme cards into a Core Duo Macbook Pro, you can enable N. Probably will work on a Macbook too.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=854644&tstart=0

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