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Axiotron ModBook w/ Built-in WAAS Enabled GPS (Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz, 2GB RAM, 160GB HDD)

Mac laptop users generally love their hardware, but with only three basic designs--the MacBook, the MacBook Pro, and the MacBook Air--there are a few distinct gaps in the lineup. Axiotron aims to fill at least one of those gaps with the ModBook, a 13-inch MacBook reworked into a slate-style tablet...

Tags: Notebooks, Tablets, GPS, Apple MacBook, Axiotron ModBook, tablet, Axiotron, Apple Macintosh

Product reviews 2008-03-10

Another Apple Tablet PC rumor: Do you buy it?

Another Apple Tablet PC rumor: Do you buy it?Don't hold your breath...Don't hold your breath. Apple has a ways to go regarding their handwriting recognition. Microsoft has a fairly well done implementation, and Apple isn't even close.Unless they have something up their sleeve, I don't think it's going...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Apple Inc., Apple tablet PC, Apple Tablet, tablet PC, PC

Discussion threads 2007-11-06

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LayoutKitchen 2.1.2 (Mac)

LayoutKitchen is an editor for KeyStrokes keyboards, SwitchXS scan panels and Proloquo speech panels. SwitchXS and KeyStrokes users can use LayoutKitchen to create their own keyboards with just those keys, controls and functions they need, thereby greatly enhancing the power and versatility of SwitchXS and KeyStrokes. Proloquo users can use...

Tags: Panel, Apple Macintosh, Niemeijer Consult, LayoutKitchen, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2009-08-31

When Woz speaks who listens?

Attendees of the Macworld Expo San Francisco next week will get the chance to see Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak on the show floor. A company that makes tablet versions of the MacBook hopes that his appearance in the booth will help sell the product. Good luck to them with this...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple II, Apple Macintosh, Steve Wozniak, Apple Inc., Woz, Axiotron, Desktops, Hardware, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-12-31

Rumor: Tablet Mac coming this fall (updated 5x)

I don't often publish first hand rumors, but today I've something special for you, if you like tablets that is. A little birdy tells me that Apple will announce a 12 or 13-inch tablet in the fall of this year. Most likely in the September...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Tablets, Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Notebooks, Apple Macintosh, Intel Atom, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2008-05-23

Before there was ModBook...

...there was the Gemini Special Edition clamshell iBook. This graphite iBook conversion by Assistive Technologies may be the first ever tablet Mac. Long before the advent of Axiotron Modbook. Gemini is known as an Augmentive and Alternative Communication AAC device. It originally sold for US$6,914. ...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple iBook, Notebooks, Gemini, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2008-03-11

Could the MacBook Air's trackpad support pen input?

As I played with the MacBook Air at the recent Macworld Expo and tried out its multitouch trackpad, my mind inexplicably went to pen input. What would it be like to write on the trackpad like a pen digitizer pad? Could it be done? Believe it or...

Tags: Capacitance, Handwriting Recognition, Problem, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Pen, Trackpad Control Panel, Tablets, Notebooks, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-01-31

Handicapping Macworld Expo San Francisco '08

Handicapping Macworld Expo San Francisco '08I'm with you on the TabletAs someone who still owes a working Newton, and still uses it occasionally to watch the younger generation fanboys go gaga, I am dying for a tablet. i even went so far as attempting to pre-order the ModBook by...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Apple Inc., tablet, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2007-11-27

Apple may expand MacBooks to 15-inch displays

Apple may expand MacBooks to 15-inch displaysJust might be the perfect MacBook for most users...It has me interested.I currently have 4 Laptops, all ThinkPads, ranging from a T20 to a T60. Very nice machines. If I was buying a PC Laptop for MYSELF these are company provided a...

Tags: Notebooks, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-02-15

Could the Mac Tablet be far behind the iPhone?

Could the Mac Tablet be far behind the iPhone?Murderers like to block out their pastAfter the sell-out, spin-back-and-suffocate Newton murder in 1997 - Jobs DID promise a MacOS Apple handheld "in the future". Either his guilty conscience or a secret agreement kept him from doing this for over 10 years....

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Apple iPhone, tablet, Mac Tablet, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2007-01-10

MacTablet to be launched next week

Credit: GottaBeMobile.comAs a Samsung Q1 UMPC/Tablet PC and MacBook Pro user I was all excited when I read the GottaBeMobile.com headline announcing that a MacTablet would be launched next week. However, to be clear this is not an official Apple product and I doubt we will see an official Apple...

Tags: Tablet PC, Apple, MacTablet, ModBook, Apple Computer Inc., Apple Tablet

Blog posts 2007-01-04