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4.5 stars
"Modbook - the only mac tablet."
Pros: The ONLY mac tablet, wacom digitizer, 512 levels of pressure sensitivity,
Cons: not a convertable, builtin bluetooth issues on the mac side, mac side doesnt have screen rotation
Summary: Axiotron made one mistake, the lack of a keyboard and trackpad for secondary input. But they are mainly targeting artists with this. Its not all bad. The bluetooth keyboard from mac can be paired with a mightymouse, and a bluetooth dongle until the issue is fixed causing the bluetooth not to function on the mac side - apparently it does work on windows running bootcamp or parallels - eliminating the need for the dongle. The screen does not rotate out of landscape mode in mac mode, but will rotate while running windows. Essentially you get all the benefits of a windows slate, with the added features of a mac. so its kind of win some lose some, having to carry a bluetooth keyboard to classes and such. Not always a bad thing, you can gain access to both pen input and keyboard input without wearing out a little hinge. I am a huge fan of the toshiba convertables however. but im pretty sure i'll go with one of these, fully loaded from axiotron, through carbon computing for 3788.40 canadian without shipping but including GST.
The screen is pretty much indestructible from what i've read, and the scratch resistant triple metal coating is a nice touch - could have looked cleaner if they would have redone the whole body with it, but oh well.
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