When is Airport Express available in 802.11ac?

I think of buying an Airport Express Terminal as an Extender for my network with an Airport Extreme base station.  No one knows when or if the Express will be available in 802.11ac format?  In addition, the benefits or drawbacks to the use of the Airport Express as an Extender?

No one knows when or if the Express will be available in 802.11ac format?

A forum to support users... we're all users... just like you.  Unfortunately, no one here will have any idea what a company notoriously secret like Apple could do, or when they could do.

The only people who know anything about are at Apple, and they do not say.

To the extent where using the Express as an Extender linking to the main router of the airport by using a wireless connection...

Upside... more signals range

Downside... loss of about half of the potential speed on the network

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