EV-DO ExpressCard for MacBook Pro

Posted April 16, 2006 at 05:04 PM by Adam Berger

Section: Broadband Cards, Laptops

Novatel’s X620 EV-DO ExpressCard arrived at PC Labs. Novatel’s card is important because a growing number of notebooks from Apple, Dell, Lenovo, HP and others only have ExpressCard slots, and up until now, high-speed cellular has only come on phones and PC Cards. Novatel is building the card for both Sprint’s and Verizon’s networks.

The card doesn’t come with any Mac drivers, but I got it running just fine in Windows XP on our MacBook Pro using Boot Camp, and on an HP Pavilion dv5000. Novatel told me previously that the Mac drivers will come as part of an online update from Apple, once the card is released. So far, the card works just like a PC Card. Load the new version of VZAccess Manager that comes with the card, pop it in, and it works. I was zipping along at 700 kbps in minutes.

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