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You’d be forgiven for assuming that the ModBook dream died with release of the first iPad. After all, the first version of the hacked notebook predated Apple’s announcement by a couple of years. When the iPad finally hit in 2010, it did a lot to address the desire for a slate device running Apple software. Since then, things have largely remained silent on the Axiotron front. In fact, the last time we heard a significant peep out of the company was back in 2009. Its former CEO Andreas Haas assured us, however, that the real reason for the company’s silence is a bit more complicated than the story of yet another product falling victim to the Apple steamroller.
“Axiotron itself was a great company,” says Haas. “Back in 2008, I took the company public, everything was really great. There was one little thing that turned out to be a huge problem, which is that the company was largely bank-financed and 10 days after it went public, Lehman Brothers went belly-up and put the whole financial market in a tailspin. After that was mostly spent on trying to somehow restructure the company, and ultimately there was just nothing that could be done about it.”
As the newly reborn Modbook Inc. teased via its Facebook page yesterday, however, the name lives on. This week marks the return of the tablet in the form of the 13.3-inch Modbook Pro, a device slated to ship early this fall. Can such a device survive in a world that’s been downright flooded by tablets in the years since its predecessor’s release? The company clearly feels it can — that its new product is unique enough to set itself apart in amongst the deluge of slates, calling the new Pro, “the world’s most powerful and largest-screen tablet computer.” And in a space where hardware and software are relatively neutered, it’s understandable how the company might be inclined to make such bold claims about the converted notebook.
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So, you unwrapped your shiny new Macbook and booted it up for the first time, only to be greeted by sluggish performance and occasional forced restarts. What’s going on? We don’t know either, but here’s a potential fix. More »
It’s been a long time since we’ve heard from the Modbook team – back before Apple’s original iPad, in fact – but the MacBook Pro conversion company is apparently back with a new offering. A new Facebook teaser campaign promises a product announcement on Thursday this week with the tagline “Imagination goes pro”, and indications that there could well be a new Pro-based artists tablet in the offing.
Details are in short supply, but a couple of previously posted graphics suggest the new Modbook will again use an active digitizer with a special stylus. We reviewed the original Modbook back in 2008 and came away impressed by how well OS X worked with a pen, particularly in terms of the flexibility that introduced for artwork and graphic design.
Interestingly, this isn’t the same Modbook team as last time. In fact, a new company licensed Axiotron’s original intellectual property, subsequently securing private equity funding to reboot the business in March. At the time, it said it expected “its first product release before the end of the year.”
Exactly what that product is – or what Mac it will be based upon – is unclear, though one of the new MacBook Pro with Retina Display machines would make for a very interesting basis for an artist’s tablet. We’ll know more tomorrow when Modbook makes its big announcement.
[via Engadget]
Modbook teases new Mac tablet conversion is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Modbook — now there’s a portmanteau we haven’t heard in a while. Looks like that’ll change this week, however. The company has offered up the intriguing promise that “imagination goes pro. Tomorrow,” alongside the image of the edge of a slick looking device and some familiar OS X icons. Color us modtrigued.
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I love thermal imaging more than a Predator and almost as much as I love the new MacBook Pro Retina. So I made this little GIF animation with thermal images from Japanese blog IT Media, showing how hot Apple’s coolest computer gets under maximum stress. More »
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