So this is what 2008 feels like. It's all bright and minty-fresh, and amazing things happen. Like the release of cool 3rd party hardware for Apple.
We've been waiting almost a year - since MacWorld '07, actually - to see the Axiotron Modbook ship, and now it finally has. A few weeks ahead of schedule, no less. It'll come loaded with OS X Leopard, Inkwell handwriting recognition software, and built in GPS functions, and Axiotron claims "twice the pen sensitivity and control" of any other tablet on the market today. Bold words, considering this is one of a very, very few Apple products not actually made by Apple. The 13.3" widescreen Modbook is, however, Apple approved. Sorry, MacAddicts, but there's an Intel Core 2 Duo processor in there, so if you're still stinging about Intel invading your precious iMac, this isn't the cure to your ills.
So the Modbook is now poised to be the first real Mac tablet, it looks gorgeous, everything we've seen performance-wise so far looks promising. Where can this thing go wrong? Well, there is a $2290 asking price, but who wouldn't pay that? It would bump your SquareTrade 3-Year laptop warranty down to just 8% of the item price, according to the widget in the sidebar. That's lower than anybody else will go and gets you a better service to boot.
The Axiotron Macbook nabbed Best of Show at Macworld 2007. Now that it'll be in the wild for Macworld 2008, we're calling it a contender for repeating.
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