Kyocera KPC650

Pros: Super Fast and works on Macintosh

Cons: Currently out of stock with Verzion

Summary: I am a Verizon dealer in indianapolis and a full time police officer in which my take home squad cars I drive 8 hours a day has a laptop mounted between the seats. About 2 years ago I purchased a Verizon Wireless Aircard. At the time I had a free unlimited Nextel aircard because I was a dealer but the performance was so pathetic and to this day still is that I agreed to pay the 79.99 monthly for the verizon service. I used the air card 7 days a week for 8+ hours a day with no flaws at all. Being a dealer I have used every card on the market. I travel all over the US for training and have always (95% of the time) had service with the the aircards. This year our department got a grant that required purchasing apple/macintosh laptops. I hadnt used a mac since 5th grade I think it was an apple 2e, but in government work your getting it for free so you learn not to complain. After getting the apple I quickly found out that only the 15"/17" power books have the pcmcia slot on the side of the laptop to even install a aircard, and freaking stupid idea on apple's part. I had to send back 2000 12" power books to apple and 2000 laptop mounts to canada and rewrite the grant to get the addition funding for the more expensive laptop. After that battle was over I received my top of the line 15" powerbook and started to install aircards. I have had ever aircard in my previous dell laptop and had grown to love the newest Novatel V620 it was a very fast aircard. After trying to install it I noticed that none of the aircards I had included macintosh software. I called verizon and they advised that the only card that worked on mac was the Kyocera KPC650. I then ordered one and a day later recieved it. The install took 3min 8sec which is why I love macs now. Verizon simple abc123. I know now why most schools and university's use them. The are far more stable than IBM's and the reason we got them for goverment work the are virtually no virus's or hacks to macintosh's. The KPC650 works awesome. Kyocera says the card will do 2.4mps but I have hit 3.8mps for an entire 8 hour shift. The card is very reliable and I will recommend it. I also purchased the external antenna which boosted performance in hotels and buildings with metal roofs that make it hard to get a good signal. Since this aircard is the only one that works for macintosh verizon cant keep them in stock. In the last 7 days verizon has sold 118,000 of them. Im sure with as many people frustrated with the microsoft/ibm monopoly that switch to macs that other companies will produce mac software for there aircards. In the meantime you cant go wrong with this Kyocera KPC650.