Comments on: MacBook Air connected via EVDO: 1; need for CD: 0

By quickly downloading some driver software over an open Wi-Fi network, I was able to get the super-thin Mac connected to the Internet via EVDO.

[Zsoldier]

OR, if you have a blackberry w/ EvDO from Sprint or Verizon, you can make a bluetooth connection to it and use it as a modem. No wires or weird dongles need to be hanging out of the pristine hotness that is your macbook air.
I wrote up a little something on how I did w/ my Macbook Pro:
http://tech.zsoldier.com/2008/04/macbook-pro-osx-105x-sprint-blackberry.html

[EVDOinfo]

if you had contacted the Mac+EVDO Experts at 3gstore, they'd have told you straight up that the USB727 is not natively supported.

For others with MacBook Air, our article shows photos of many cellular modems and the MacBook Air , explaining what works and what doesn't: http://www.EVDOinfo.com/MBA

[EVDOinfo]

Speaking of "Need for CD", the Sprint Compass 597 USB modem has connection manager for Windows AND Mac OSX built into on-board memory! Not only would you have no need for a software CD, you would not have needed an open wifi hotspot to download the software!

more info at http://www.EVDOinfo.com/compass

[kgsbca]

I just bought a U727 from Sprint today and got it up and running on my Mac Book Air in about 10-15 minutes.

I wish I could say the same for getting it to run on the eeePC. I've given up on that. Instead. I'll just wait for the cradlepoint PHS300 router that uses the U727, and create an 11g network. It should be here Thursday. I do feel silly, though, the reason I spent the extra $50 on the U727 instead of the Compass 597 was that the U727 allegedly supports Linux.