With less than 20 days to line-up your Christmas gift you still have time to take a look at the new Modbook made by Axiotron. The new model is pretty expensive too with price starting at $2,249? Too much you say? Here’s what’s new in this Axiotron Mac tablet:

• Better system performance
• Improved power usage
• Full Bluetooth® connectivity
• Axiotron’s QuadCoat™
• Improved display characteristics and drawing surface
• Enhanced GPS capability
• Better pen tablet performance
• Autodesk® SketchBook® Express 2009
• Improved Serviceability

At least that’s what Axiotron says about their new tablet Mac mod. What do you think? Is it all worth all that money?

via Axiotron

Apple’s MacBook is a proof to what thinking outside of the box means. It’s a very reliable laptop for a multitude o situations. What it isn’t is a tablet PC. Although tablet PCs have their popularity among a certain share of the market, Apple hasn’t created any tablets (yet).

Axiotron took a MacBook and converted it into a tablet called the Modbook. What they simply did is remove the keyboard, mouse pad and LCD and replaced them with an LCD digitized display and a pen to work on that new surface. This is not a touch screen so your finger won’t work.The price for which such a piece of equipment retails is $2.279. Too much you say? I agree.

I could give you specs but I won’t because this machine uses everything from that original MacBook. Axiotron haven’t changed anything under the hood and everything is still there working as it should. The OS is still a Mac OS X with no modifications other than adding the pen drivers.

So I think a better move would be waiting for an official Apple tablet. I am sure they aren’t ignoring that segment of the market. I’d certainly wouldn’t pay extra for turning my MacBook into something I can’t fully use. What do I mean? I would miss the keyboard, and I’d hate the fact I can’t switch from landscape to portrait or the fact that the new LCD is not as mobile as expected from a tablet. And if you really really need that tablet PC, you’d better get an extra one instead of turning your Apple into a mutant. That way you will benefit from both worlds. The artist in you will definitely choose!

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