This picture, captured from Apple’s site today (click to enlarge), is proof of two models of iPads will exist. Of course that isn’t anything new, Steve Jobs told us yesterday that there will be a wifi model and a wifi + 3G model. But this is the first time we have seen that there may be a difference in physical appearance between the two models. The 3G model is the one on the left, sporting the black translucent strip for the 3G antennae, while the wifi-only model lacks this sporty feature.

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[Updated 12/19/09  17:39 GMT At End of Article] – Until recently, mac users have been forced to wait, when it comes to accessing mobile broadband through a cell phone carrier like Sprint or Verizon. It had nothing to do with rules or regulations, only that most of the devices required to access this service were incompatible with Macs. This past summer both companies released a cool gadget called the Mi-Fi, which would convert this cell phone data signal into a wi-fi signal that up to 5 devices could share. That was cool, but there were still no traditional devices that worked with mac… Until today.

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