The Apple Tablet – Finally Coming to the People
Posted on 27 January 2007, at 10:02 pm, by Mitchell Oke
For years people have been waiting to Apple to release a competitor to Microsoft’s Tablet PC, but it appears they have been beaten to it by a company called Axiotron who have taken things into their own hands by producing a heavily modified MacBook that includes a new 13.3″ LCD with a hardened surface and a Wacom digitizer the offers all the benefits only a Wacom can (like pressure sensitivity).
This gorgeous tablet is now available for pre-order from Other World Computing in three configurations which adjust the CPU, RAM, HDD, Optical Drive. Every pre-ordered ModBook includes a GPS receiver, but after the offer ends only the two top configurations do.
The lucky guys over at MacWorld got to try one out, and Johnathan Seff has made a short video demonstrating the ModBook and its Tablet PC abilities. They have also posted a First Look article which goes into more detail.
This isn’t the first “Apple Tablet” however. Back in 2004 a fellow by the name of Joseph DeRuvo Jr. published an article about his creation which be dubbed the i-Tablet, a modified iBook that accomplishes similar goals to the ModBook.
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January 28th, 2007 at 9:58 am
It looks kinda large for a tablet.
January 28th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
You’re just spoiled by the 12″ screen /14.5″ case size of the Fuji.
January 29th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
Not to be fussy or anything but can we actually call that thing an “Apple Tablet” ? It’s more a tablet with Mac OS on it and it if I’m not mistaken it has nothing to do with Apple labs, does it ?
January 29th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
Well, Axiotron is actually calling it the “Axiotron ModBook Mac Tablet”. So technically no – it is not an Apple Tablet.
It may be the closest thing Mac users ever get to an “Apple Tablet”, however…which is a shame.
January 29th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
Well its an Apple computer converted into a tablet-style form factor, so I’d say for the moment this is the Apple Tablet. That is until Apple get their act together. I mean if these guys can make something like this that is so professional by modifying an off-the-shelf product, how hard can it be fore Apple to make?