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New Pen-Based 'Modbook Pro' Tablet Launching in Early Fall
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In the past, as long as they are a "value added reseller" and buy entire Macs and do the mod (maybe even have to give the customer the left over parts) - it's okay.
You in a sense authorize the company to modify your MacBook.
Well, that's a great idea, assuming it's actually executed well. With this, you can have the best of both worlds... a tablet interface and touch sensitive screen, and the full hardware and software horsepower of a "real" computer... Even just having a full-on complete OS would make a huge difference alone... that combined with robust hardware... I'd love to try one of these out... Hopefully this company will actually release their product this time!
No, not new. Reborn. The former company modifyed MacBooks a few years ago before shutting down.
Probably same as last time... a collective yawn. Understand these are not priced for consumers. Last time they were about 2x the cost of a stock MBP.
Love it! I don't know why people keep saying "how am i expose to type on it" Hello Really? how do you type on the iPad? Or "why don't I just use a MacBook Air" Ok, your at your job, maybe it's construction. You need to look at something. You pull out your macbook air hold it in one hand and type in the other. Or you just take out a tablet. The tablet would be "smaller" in surface area, making it easer to use wall walking. This question could also be said about the the iPad.
Just wish apple would make it...
Just wish apple would make it...
Why do people keep saying this? MacRumors is formatted so that the most recent post will be on the "front page." Get it together.
But a company buying a MacBook does not have the right to sell it under any name they want. And this name to me sounds likely to confuse typical consumers as to who makes it.
Should car companies also ban others from taking stock cars they make and modifying them into other vehicles?
Often retuning the engine, better brakes, changing the suspension.
They make stretch limo's this way taking a stock car, cutting it in half and customising it into a new vehicle.
Bullet proof cars also.
Ambulances also used to be stock vans that came of the production line and went to a customiser company.
Wrong, the iPad's success proves nothing of the sort. As the iPad stands it is crippled. If the iPad ran all of iOS plus MacOS/Classic/Rosetta for those of us who want them it would greatly increase the amount of available useful software, especially for education and small business. This would in turn make the iPad even more successful than it is. By limiting the iPad to just iOS Apple has abandoned a tremendous resource of excellent software and culture as well a crippling their hardware. A shame.
There's a MacBook Pro inside.
Fact: There were plenty of tablets that ran a "grown-up" operating system, basically some version of Windows. And they were all failures.
Fact: Apple made a tablet that has a somehow reduced version of the "grown-up" operating system, iOS instead of MacOS X, and it is a huge, huge success.
Combining these two facts I would say you are wrong. What you suggest would improve the iPad to a small number of people, but hugely reduce its value to the majority.
Everyone buying this is buying an Apple product, so Apple doesn't lose any sales.
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99% of the tasks you would want to do with your fingers will be easier on an iPad and 1% will be easier on this ModBook. (Things will be different once you plugin a keyboard.)
This is brilliant. I don't think it violates any of Apple's legal restrictions except the laptop's warranty. It's like reselling an old computer, no restrictions about that. Plus it fills a niche market that still fuels Apple's business. I like it. Let them be big.
Yeah, if it isn't made by Apple it's lame.
Why do these other companies keep trying to think different?
That's just wrong.
This is a Mac Rumors site. This is a announcement about a new product that incorporates a MacBook Pro into a tabel form?
Why wouldn't this be "front page" news?
I highly, highly doubt ANYONE looking for a macbook or ipad would ever find out about this. I'm fairly certain the only way to stumble upon this is to actively look for it, and I'm even more certain the dealers would make sure this is the product the customer is really asking for.
Yes, it's essentially an overpriced case.
The funny part is seeing Apple serving as a component supplier in this particular case.
I would much rather go with this than a surface tablet. At least I know where the apps and OS stand. That 512 levels of pressure is better, too.
We'll see what the price is, though!
We'll see what the price is, though!