Mahalo videos the Modbook Tablet
We haven’t heard a lot since the shipping announcement about the Axiotron Modbook and I’ve been waiting for someone to give us a good video of the Modbook in action. Mahalo’s Veronica Belmont has done just that and the resultant video is a great display of the Modbook and also of how useful the Tablet format is for creative efforts. She shows how the Modbook is helping artists, cartoonists, photographers, music creators and others to create the stuff they do with the greatest of ease. Who knows, after seeing this video maybe buddy t lewis will be switching to the Modbook?
Would be a great tool if I were in the target market. The most significant comment in the video is that the Modbook is designed for Mac’s well-established core customers: graphics and multimedia artists (the Apple core?). With a 13.3″ display and 5.5lbs of girth, it seems a little mobility-challenged. A sub-three-pound 10″ convertible tablet would fit my needs better.
Don’t drink the cool-aid if you are comfortable with Windows. Someone like T Lewis has no reason to switch.
There is nothing about the Modbook that is better for art than any other Wacom penabled Tablet PCs. In fact, you get a lot less tablet with the Modbook:
- No portrait mode
- No hardware buttons
- No way to clear out dust off the screen by the end user without taking the whole unit apart
- Almost zero tablet functionality in the OS
And the whole 512 levels of pressure vs 256 of TPC thingy is a brilliant marketing scheme initiated by Axiotron, but in reality, make no difference at all:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMUUDYiKEKA
No portrait mode, huh? Not even in Vista or XP? I’d jump on this if I can dual boot, and at least be able to do portrait in Windows.
You can do it with Bootcamping into XP:TE or Vista. But at that point, you might as well as yourself a grand and get a Tablet PC instead of a $2500 gimped hardware without the right design details for tablet functionality.
The only people who should spend $2500 for Modbook is those who are unable to function outside of OSX and still want a tablet.
Jeepers – one never knows where one’s moniker will pop up.
The main thing I like re: the Modbook is the screen size. Beyond that, Shog’s right. The crippled tablet functionality versus Windows (dodgy though it may often be) is a deal killer.
I think when Apple gets around to a tablet it’s gotta blow minds – change the landscape (which is begging to be changed) – or they won’t do one. A noble effort, but ModBook ain’t there yet.
T
ps: Besides – I’ve fallen deeply in love with touch on my Lenovo. Never goin’ back.