Axiotron introduces Modbook Pro; cue Barry White

By on Jan 7, 2009 at 9:53 AM
General January 7, 2009

Behold what could very well be the sexiest piece of kit introduced at Macworld. Axiotron took the wraps off its latest OS X tablet endeavor yesterday at Macworld and caused inner conflict in nearly everyone who passed its booth. I can spend $5,000 on a tablet, right? NO, I need to pay rent! But the weather is great in California, can’t I make it on the streets? No, I’ll miss the premier of Lost! Wait, I can just watch it on the Modbook Pro… If you can swing it, Axiotron’s first Pro version based on the 15-inch MacBook Pro most definitely has the juice every Mac fan has been hoping for. 15.4-inch WXGA touchscreen display with finger and pen support, 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor (2.4GHz base), NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics processor, 320GB 7200 rpm hard drive or 128GB SSD, integrated GPS, handwriting recognition and plenty more – all wrapped in a 0.93-inch thick case. Basically, it’s 6.6 pounds of hot. Axiotron is currently offering a $400 discount for Macworld but we have to image if $5,000 is too much, so is $4,600. If you were already on board however, the discount is nothing but gravy.

[Via Macworld]

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  • Bob

    Wow, that’s pretty sweet. I think that’s what apple should have released at Macworld. oh, and add that crazy battery t it and it’s genius.
    :p

  • David

    $5000? Seems very steep for a relatively low-specified laptop without a keyboard.

    Can’t really see much use in this, and certainly not at this price point.

    What would you use it for? Can’t watch films (unless you had a tilting stand), can’t do work (no good keyboard & low-res screen), no good for gaming. Seemingly just an expensive internet tablet.

    Hopefully others know of good uses for it!

  • Joey

    You obviously have never used a Wacom Tablet for video editing or graphic design. This is essentially a Wacom Cintiq built into a Macbook Pro, which is an ingenius idea, however the price is too steep. I have the Macbook Pro 15″, and i would love to have this so i wouldnt have to carry around two seperate devices when i need the pen support on the go. It is a great concept. Now apple needs to come out with it!

  • MiniMe

    Despite me considering Apples a good-looking but generally useless toys, this thing is great.

  • Lunchbox

    I wouldn’t go near this product until they fix their customer service, most of their fist generation product doesn’t fully work with bluetooth failures and RF interference making them unusable. They have yet to fix these a year into production despite repeated promises. I would say stay away!

  • mingkee

    iTablet?!
    no thanks

  • http://www.monsterandfriends.com drunknbass

    OMg! I wantttttt. 17″ version off newest version of MacBook would be even hotter. And if they used the 1024 sensitivity level digitizer over the 512 they use now it’s be even better than that. Yikes.

  • Galvatron

    screw that id rather blow 5 grand on a eurocom phantom -X

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  • bonesb

    I saw the device and really, really want it. Then, the price made me gack up my beer.

    Considering the price of the larger Cintiq tablets, which I’m budgeting for, and what its grafted on. A couple of Tums might settle me down a bit. If it’ll run the Mac OS on one drive and Win XP on the second, hmmm.

  • one1082

    need. keyboard.

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