SlashGear Japan
Axiotron’s Modbook has long been the only semi-official way to get an Apple tablet, with the company taking a pre-unibody MacBook and swiftly twisting it into a Wacom-enabled touchscreen slate. While we loved our review unit, we weren’t too keen on the high price; happily OWC – one of Axiotron’s official distribution and conversion agents – have announced a slash of both new and conversion pricing.
New Modbooks are now available from $1,599, which is still reasonably expensive but a far cry from the $2,249 you’d have paid a year ago. Meanwhile the cost of converting your own MacBook 13-inch – including shipping in both directions – is from $649.99, and they’ll even throw in a GPS chip while they do it.
[via Gear Diary]
One Response to “Axiotron Modbooks get cheaper”
jonnysomniac November 15, 2009
The fact that its only for macbooks, is the reason I wouldn’t buy.
Curious though, would installing windows 7 on that hardware function? I can’t imagine the motherboards apple makes actually having drivers for windows 7, similar to how microsoft forced some laptop-development companies to have vista-specific hardware
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