eePC laptop has WiMAX inside

eePC wins design award at CES, will ship with "WiMAX inside"

ASUS, an Indian manufacturer of laptops (one of the world's largest) won an award for innovation for its eePC small (7" screen) laptop at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. What's also significant about the eePC is that ASUS will integrate WiMAX in it making it the first laptop to ship with "WiMAX inside". I'm using quotation marks here with care as Intel has announced plans to use the two-word phrase "WiMAX inside" for marketing with its ecosystem partners. The eePC currently ships with Wi-Fi.

The next version of the eePC will ship with a larger (8.9") screen and with WiMAX. This should put ASUS ahead in the race toward getting a native WiMAX laptop on the market. In addition to the consumer market, a WiMAX-enabled eePC should do well in education markets where a school district or university could deploy WiMAX "native" for student and faculty use. The WiMAX-enabled eePC could also have a quick uptake in enterprise markets as well especially for mobile workers.

Frank Ohrtman
WMX Systems

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