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Mac EVDO card in May

macbook pro evdo card due from novatel
in mayI happened by Om Malik's blog today and saw, as CTIA winds down, he's caught wind of an EVDO card from Novatel Wireless that's due in May. The best news is, it's going to be an Express card, and it'll work in the MacBook Pro, no Windows partition needed. So what? Well I guess C.K. can finally get back to playing World of Warcraft in Central Park (and freaking out the squares). If you just can't wait until next month, when they are rumored to appear, you can keep an eye on this MacBook Pro page on EVDOinfo.com. Wireless is great, especially if it's everywhere. There is a USB EVDO device from Novatel that'll be out "later this year."

I happened by Om Malik's blog today and saw, as CTIA winds down, he's caught wind of an EVDO card from Novatel Wireless that's due in May....
 

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chrisjur

I have the most recent EVDO card offering from Verizon, the Verizon PC 5740 Card. It is fully compatible with Mac OS X right out of the box - no hacks, no third party drivers, etc. Verizon's VZAccess "dialer" software for Mac OS is as fully featured as the Windows version. Its stability and ease-of-use is great. I currently use this with my Powerbook 15" 1.67/HiRes and also us it with my Thinkpad T43 at work...very happy with the service!

April 09 2006 at 10:11 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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The existing Novatel EVDO card (V620 and S620) will work on OS X no problem. Just contact Novatel directly.

They also support HSDPA on Cingular and in Europe with OS X, but again, you have to contact them directly.

April 08 2006 at 10:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
avixe

#1, I've been able to get a Verizon EVDO card to work on a Powerbook G4. There were instructions floating around awhile back re: editing the plist; it did work for me.

Flaked out if you put it to sleep and came back, though.

April 08 2006 at 6:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tom Harpel

So will this thing work with Sprint's EV-DO network, or is it carrier-specific?

April 08 2006 at 3:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Deedas

First of all, sorry for the double post. But after searching for a while I managed to find out that Kyocera's EV-DO card available from Verizon will work on OSX 10.3.2 or later. That model will only work if you get it from Verizon according to their website. So now the question for me is, get this now for my G4 PB or wait a few months till I can get my hands on a 17" MBP and buy the express version.

April 08 2006 at 3:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Deedas

Will Verizon's regular PCMCIA cards work on my PowerBook G4? This blog made it sound like we just finally got a card that works on Macs.

I was thinking of subscribing to Verizon's service a couple days ago but couldn't find confirmation on their page that their cards would work on Macs.

April 08 2006 at 3:24 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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