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Now that the long promised faster speeds of WiMAX are starting to rev up into reality, Processor makers are rolling out the first WiMAX-enabled networks. At least one copy -- from Asus -- is already shipping, but it ll charge you a cool 1,399.

Sprint s launch in Baltimore of the first WiMAX system in the US drew support this week from a long register of Processor vendors that are either development or already promotion WiMAX-enabled laptops, including Asus, Lenovo, Acer, Toshiba, Dell, Panasonic, Samsung, and Sony.

One WiMAX note pad -- specifically, the Asus M50Vm-A1WM -- is actually available from Newegg.com for 1,399 , although only condition you live in the continental US which excludes Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico .

Beyond the obligatory WiMAX modem certificate -- and the embedded WiMAX support Intel has already built into its Centrino 2 note pad stand -- the Windows Landscape Business-based workstation offers a 15.4-inch WXGA screen, a 250 GB hard drive, 4 GB of memory, and a built-in DVD Super-Multi drive.

Meanwhile, Sprint and Intel announced this week that Amazon.com is now taking pre-orders for WiMAX laptops from Asus, Lenovo, and Acer. aide quick check of Amazon.com by BetaNews this hours of daylight yielded a full amount of five WiMAX notebooks on the position the Asus M50Vm, Lenovo ThinkPad SL300 and SL500, and Acer Aspire 6930 and 4930.

On its own Netting site, Lenovo is promotion four models announced as getting WiMAX support: the SL300 and SL500, which are geared to SMBs, along with two others, the ThinkPad X301 ultaportable and the T400 mainstream trade model. However, when BetaNews viewed the merchandise leaf this crack of dawn for the SL300 on the Lenovo site, WiMAX apparently hadn t yet been added yet to the register of customization options.

Lenovo has also talked up campaign to add built-in WiMAX support to about five other notebooks later this year, including the consumer-oriented IdeaPad Y530.

Meanwhile, Toshiba expects to start promotion WiMAX notebooks this year, too, while Dell, Panasonic, Samsung and Sony have announced WiMAX intentions for 2009.

While natives in parts of the Baltimore region can make use of WiMAX laptops right away, deployments force wait for later in other sections of the US, anyway. In Sprint s phased rollout program, other cities that are taking acme precedence for early acceptance include Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, and Chicago.
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