Hands-On With the Axiotron Modbook

We finally get our hands on Axiotron's Modbook. Introduced early last year and finally made available for market, the Modbook is an Apple Macbook modded to behave like a slate tablet.

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Science & Technology

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• Axiotron
• Modbook
• Apple
• Macbook
• tablet
• slate
• PC
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• Gearlog

[cantormath]

What the ipad should have been.

[SusiLawson]

how long was it running before it got hot and loud? would be nice to know? Not a good review for axitron..still waiting for a review from a digital artist showing us what it is really like to draw on this??

[MaxAC40]

@MaxAC40

1:20

that's what they need to do.

[MaxAC40]

sucks that it gets rid of its normal use of a laptop.

should have done something like this:

watch?v=P8iV8gdWerk

[otaku8489]

This would be far and away better tan an ipad as a portable sketchbook for us digitla artists, obviousely it cant match a cintiq overall, and the main gripe for many would be teh lack of function buttons(from what I can see anyway) however Im wondering now, would it be possible to hook up a tablet with function buttons to the modbook via USB, now that would be damn cool and make this a far cheaper but competent alternative to the cintiq!

[vantageIIx]

@T3AM33 it has all the i/o of a normal macbook so any usb devices you use with any computer will work with it.

[T3AM33]

so u can hook up a keyboard on it???

[T3AM33]

@cantormath hahaha yuuuuup

[Youkaiyoma]

@inventorOz84

i think their mostly tageting students and artist

[inventorOz84]

Huge!!! I bet it is heavy too! and no multi-touch?

[senyio1]

ironic.....better than the ipad

[weenylem]

well on every tablet comes with 2 buttons on the pen near where every one hold the pen, you hold it and tap. Then its a right click :3