The rumors of the Modbook's demise have been greatly exaggerated. Introduced in January of 2007 at the Macworld Expo, Axiotron's modified MacBook caught the attention of many Mac users who had been waiting for Apple to introduce its own tablet-like machine-particularly artists and graphic professionals.
Unfortunately, Axiotron encountered a number of setbacks throughout 2007 that ultimately caused the ModBook to be delayed for a year, causing some to write off the ModBook as vaporware. At Macworld 2008, Axiotron CEO Andreas Haas spoke with us about what caused the delays, why the company chose to go ahead with a Mac-based tablet, and what the future looked like for the ModBook.
With Axiotron fulfilling all of its backed-up preorders and catching up on orders from Macworld, the company is finally on track and has a shipping product. Without any official tablet-like product from Apple, the ModBook is the only machine of its kind that runs Mac OS X, and it's the perfect time to put one through its paces.
