New ThinkPad Is All Work, and Some Play - New York Times

New ThinkPad Is All Work, and Some Play - New York Times: "THE Z is also the first laptop to offer, as an option, built-in EV-DO. That unfortunate term refers to a genuinely important new feature: a high-speed wireless connection that, because it relies on the cellular network, doesn't require finding a wireless hot spot in a coffee shop. When you have EV-DO, the entire city is your hot spot. You surf the Internet with the speed of a slowish cable modem - and when you're stuck in a taxi, miles from a Starbucks, that's a liberating feeling. (EV-DO stands for Evolution-Data Only, whatever that means.)

The EV-DO feature relies on the Verizon Wireless network, and it works in 54 cities. The price for this service recently dropped to $60 a month, from $80. (This feature, which Verizon calls Broadband Access, is available to other kinds of laptops, too, but only if you buy a PC card that costs $100 and protrudes awkwardly from the side of the laptop.)"