http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/ Engadget Comments for ModBook gets free upgrades for pre-orderers, to ship soon http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/May 27th 2007 5:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/May 27th 2007 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/
ah no, you didn't. sry...]]>May 27th 2007 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/
The only thing that i find the mod book is missing is the option for the Radeon X1600 that the MBP sports, then i would have reserved one a long time ago.]]>May 27th 2007 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/inkwell/]]>May 27th 2007 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/May 27th 2007 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/
Mitch, I suggest you do some research:

http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/05/18/is-3gb-better-than-2gb-of-ram-in-a-macbook-yes-and-no

Things aren't always what they seem!]]>May 27th 2007 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/May 29th 2007 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/May 27th 2007 5:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/
"While they do admit that the matched pairs are better for some tests, they find that for the most part, 3GB of RAM is more beneficial."

;)]]>May 27th 2007 8:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/May 27th 2007 9:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/
Now if only some one would make a decent 14" tablet with more than a handful of custom buttons...http://www.trevorwhite.co.uk/tab.jpg

;) ]]>May 27th 2007 7:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/
I made one out of a PowerBook 170 a few years ago, consisting of a gutted screen and a wacom tablet. It worked perfectly, with a pen and everything. Someone else made one out of an iBook.

So perhaps they mean it's the first "commercially produced" mac tablet!]]>May 27th 2007 11:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/May 27th 2007 11:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/Holy cow. That is a *wicked* tablet design. Did you draw that, or is that an actual product?

Either way, very sweet. I definitely agree that more custom buttons would be really handy. My love for keyboard shortcuts would suffer if I had a tablet. ;-)]]>May 28th 2007 2:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/May 28th 2007 8:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/May 28th 2007 5:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/May 28th 2007 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/
Nice try but since you apparently can't read or comprehend (which negates this post as well)...

this is not created by or even (as far as I know) officially endorsed by Apple.

This is a 3rd party that has decided to create a "Mac"-based tablet.

Though it could change it's mind, Apple has said in the past it saw little reason (ie, "no market") for such a tablet form factor.

The MS/Windows based ones you boast about are not exactly burning up the sales figures.

But keep throwing out the jealous/envious digs at Apple... one day you might actually hit something substantial.

...]]>May 28th 2007 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/May 28th 2007 10:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/May 28th 2007 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/Whoa. Seriously, that rocks. That would be an awesome design for a tablet. The larger bars on each side would be scroll-sensitive, right? And then all the buttons could be customizable based on what app you're using at the time. Throw in some bluetooth for a keyboard when you need it, and you're set, eh? But back to the design - it's wicked. Nicely done.

Let me know when Apple or Alienware picks you up as an industrial designer! :-)]]>May 28th 2007 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/
For those that are interested here is an early doodle with option to swap all of the ports and bays around. Forgive my terrible handwriting and the botched perspective.

http://www.trevorwhite.co.uk/tab1.jpg ]]>May 28th 2007 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/May 28th 2007 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/2GB (in any OS), you're much better off with 3GB.]]>May 28th 2007 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/I see what you mean about the scrollbars - my only question about the other design was how you would hold it with the other hand, without pushing the buttons. The pen-sensitivity would work fine. But how do you actually hold a tablet PC?! Or do people just always find a table to draw on? I would guess you could cradle it with one arm, like a clipboard. In that case, an option to quickly change from "portrait" to "landscape" would be handy - maybe an automatic orientation sensor? Except that changing resolution/display things usually takes so long that it would be annoying if it happened by accident a lot.

The ports modules are genius. That would be perfect - customizing it for every trip on the road. Hopefully you could still squeeze BT into the tablet somewhere too, though! Drawing direct on the screen would be a dream for artists and designers. But any ideas about fingerprint protection? For the pen silo, you could make it magnetic so that once you started sliding the pen in, it would suck it in all the way, then by pushing on the pen end it would spring-load back out and magnetically push it all the way out (like newer SD card slots in cameras, but magnetically amplified). I'm not sure if that would work in real life, of course.

It's been pretty fun thinking about better tablet PC designs all day. Thanks for showing me your sweet illustrations. As the design expert that I am (read: a clueless high school student!) I can say without a doubt that you rock at electronics design. This has serious potential.

Anyway, thanks! It's been fun. Engadget definitely was not set up for these kinds of discussions. If you ever have some new tech ideas/illustrations, I would love to see them. Keep up the sweetness! Trev, you are a very talented designer. I'm jealous. :-)

Take care! Have a nice day.


(sorry, Engadget. Offtopic = excellent...)]]>May 28th 2007 5:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/May 29th 2007 12:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/May 29th 2007 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/
I would have expected something better.


Think please =)]]>May 30th 2007 12:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/May 29th 2007 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/
Do you guys have any taste for good design? You're obviously ignorant PC users. I mean what do you know about good design, or ease of use. right? You guys don't really care about that kind of stuff.]]>May 29th 2007 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/
I use both PC and Mac and both have flaws which bug me and features which I think are fantastic, neither are perfect. ]]>May 29th 2007 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/May 29th 2007 10:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/Jun 7th 2007 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/modbook-gets-free-upgrades-for-pre-orderers-to-ship-soon/
I found this discussion site about modbook if anyone's interested, filled with disgruntled customers...goto...

http://groups.google.com/group/modbook/topics

... I read the comments and realise that I'm not the only angry bastard.]]>Jun 18th 2007 9:45AM