This is an incredible piece of equipment for a Digital Artist, but the price tag kills it completely. Those of you contemplating the ModBook Pro to take notes...r u srs? Of course it is a benefit to take notes on a computer, but realistically this thing is made primarily for Picture/Video Editing and Digital Drawing/Painting, Music also. Hopefully Axiotron will come to their senses and lower the BooM so people will actually buy this thing. I gotta say it looks way more refined than it's predecessor, but the ModBook had alot of problems, and horrific customer support. The reason Apple does not discourage or sue Axiotron was stated above by iBeDat, they are licensed, and the parts are bought direct from Apple. Taking it a step further, Axiotron takes the risk of testing the market, and rest assured, when the demand increases for this product, big brother Apple will take over. Think about it, Apple already makes all the components for these things, minus the shell, it can't be that difficult to build a better one with a much lower cost than Axiotron is charging.
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This is an incredible piece of equipment for a Digital Artist, but the price tag kills it completely. Those of you contemplating the ModBook Pro to take notes...r u srs? Of course it is a benefit to take notes on a computer, but realistically this thing is made primarily for Picture/Video Editing and Digital Drawing/Painting, Music also. Hopefully Axiotron will come to their senses and lower the BooM so people will actually buy this thing. I gotta say it looks way more refined than it's predecessor, but the ModBook had alot of problems, and horrific customer support.
The reason Apple does not discourage or sue Axiotron was stated above by iBeDat, they are licensed, and the parts are bought direct from Apple. Taking it a step further, Axiotron takes the risk of testing the market, and rest assured, when the demand increases for this product, big brother Apple will take over. Think about it, Apple already makes all the components for these things, minus the shell, it can't be that difficult to build a better one with a much lower cost than Axiotron is charging.