modbook pro

The original ModBook and Axiotron are long gone, but a new company, called Modbook Inc. and founded by one of the original ModBook tablet's designers, is ready to give it another shot.

The new product is the Modbook Pro, and the company calls it "the world's most powerful and largest-screen tablet computer." Like the original ModBook, the Modbook Pro is based on a rebuilt Apple laptop. In this case, it's the 13-inch MacBook Pro. The basic concept is the same: the new tablet takes a MacBook, removes the keyboard, flips the screen around over the chassis base, and adds a digitizer to the screen. Modbook describes the process:

 The Modbook Pro enclosure conversion kit incorporates and completely encases the original hardware of a new Apple MacBook Pro 13.3-inch base system running OS X Mountain Lion. In addition, the Modbook Pro contains a state-of-the- art digitizer from the industry leader in pen tablet technology, Wacom, offering 512 levels of pen pressure sensitivity -- more than any other tablet computer on the market. And the Modbook Pro's pen interface features tough and scratch-resistamodbooknt ForceGlass, providing an etched, paper-emulating drawing and writing surface.