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I purchased a A1311 iMac education edition. I was wondering if it was able to support Bluetooth if the proper parts were added or if its even possible.
As far as I know I don’t believe it’s possible. If it IS possible you would need the appropriate daughterboard (Airport & wifi are on the same card, I believe), power/data cable between the motherboard and daughterboard, and internal antennae. It’s interesting to me that Apple doesn’t say this model iMac “lacks Bluetooth” but it actually “does not support Bluetooth”. This leads me to believe that the required interface on the motherboard for the Bluetooth daughterboard may not exist, and/or Apple has a software block in place to prevent the Bluetooth kernel from loading on this model. It would surely be a lot simpler to use a Bluetooth USB device.
you can get a bluetooth usb adapter and load its drivers via disk
Here’s someone else who did it My iMac doesn’t have a bluetooth module
buy a Mac compatible USB Bluetooth dongle is the only way I promise you… https://www.amazon.com/Bluetooth-USB-Tra…
