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Macbook Air Internal EVDO Broadband Card Mod

Posted by timothy on from the evdo-wants-to-be-free dept.

Sastira writes "Jordan Bunnell has successfully modded his Macbook Air to use an internal EVDO Broadband card. In order to make everything fit, he had to sacrifice the WiFi and bluetooth cards, but considering the portable nature of the laptop, it is a small price to pay for being truly wireless." (You'll need to scroll down past the sketchy-looking top section of that page.) Sastira also links to this InsanelyMac forum thread on the mod.

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  1. Well, let's face, he would HAVE to... by pandrijeczko · · Score: 1, Troll
    Jordan Bunnell has successfully modded his Macbook Air to use an internal EVDO Broadband card.

    ...because even for the humungous amount of money you pay for an Air, there's not even an RJ-45 wired network connector in it!

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  2. Re:My external EVD0 card is portable, too. by Amouth · · Score: 0, Troll

    I would imagine that MBA owners would be somewhat likely to own an iPhone.

    iPhone, for some inexcusable reason, can't tether via bluetooth. nore would you want to live with the dialup speed the current iphone gets..

    without 3g support the net connection on the iphone is pointless
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