ModBook, What?

Founder_film · 5 Jan 2007 at 14:24

Seems like a third party company is bringing out an OSX based tablet.

http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2007/01/20070104171938.shtml
http://axiotron.web7.serverlogistics.com/

I am not sure I like having a Mac solution built by someone other than Apple. Maybe Apple thought it was too risky to make a tablet so they let someone else have a go. What you guys think? Will anyone buy one when its not actually Apple?

MagSafe · 5 Jan 2007 at 15:36

Steve Jobs will likely take one look at that at Macworld and shoot them down in flames.

...I can't see it being a success to be honest.

Caged · 5 Jan 2007 at 15:48

Mac OS isn't designed to be used with a stylus, sounds like a dirty hardware / software hack. It will be pricey as well because of all the bits of the original MacBook they'll have to chuck out / modify.

Will_3rd · 5 Jan 2007 at 15:53

I remember some company did the same with the iBook

MagSafe · 5 Jan 2007 at 15:58

I wonder how many patents and copyrighted they infringed to create it :confused:

Big-Mac-Please · 5 Jan 2007 at 16:02

MagSafe said:
I wonder how many patents and copyrighted they infringed to create it

Thats what i thought!

JonB · 5 Jan 2007 at 18:28

And if it's not apple hardware, then surely it is illegal to run Mac OS X on it?

drak3 · 5 Jan 2007 at 18:33

Buy OSX from apple maybe like dell does with M$?

toosepin · 5 Jan 2007 at 18:59

It doesn't say anywhere that it will be running Mac OS X, which I presume it wouldn't - because that would be illegal.

JonB · 5 Jan 2007 at 19:06

toosepin said:
It doesn't say anywhere that it will be running Mac OS X, which I presume it wouldn't - because that would be illegal.

The Axiotron website implies that it will be.

drak3 said:
Buy OSX from apple maybe like dell does with M$?

That's because the T&C of running windows is different. The Mac OS X T&C states somewhere that running it on anything other than "proper" apple hardware is prohibited.

MagSafe · 5 Jan 2007 at 19:12

toosepin said:
It doesn't say anywhere that it will be running Mac OS X, which I presume it wouldn't - because that would be illegal.

If you look at the curtained picture of the 'ModBook' though its pretty obvious its running OS X, and if you think about it, if it wasen't running OS X what use would it be? Why would they call it the 'ModBook'?

All they've done is taken apart a MacBook, bolted the keyboard part onto the back of the screen and put a new case on it (hence why its been named ModBook) and there taking all the credit for it :confused:

toosepin · 5 Jan 2007 at 19:52

I've just realised that its just a MacBook thats been abused. Not really a commercial product, more so a project machine.