The Studio 16 and Studio XPS 17 are two laptops which according to Dell will be available with WiMax Previously there were 802.11n Mini Card were used as standard, but a $60 upgrade has been made through the Intel 5159 WiMax combo card.
As far as mobile broadband is concerned, this replacement for desktops appear somewhat weird, as limited availability of WiMax serves as the biggest strike against it and right now it’s available in Baltimore and Portland, but according to Sprint it will expand its network during this year and many other states will be included in it.
While on the other hand, HP is not going to offer WiMax as a choice in its notebooks and according to an HP spokesman, this emerging technology is not quite ready to integrate in the coming notebooks from HP.
Acer says that WiMax has been qualified in several notebooks, but this option has been picked by any of its resellers in the United States.
You definitely need to have a USB modem that can 3G as well as Mobile WiMax and U300 USB modem from sprint seems to do that all in $80 for 24 months contract.
