ModBook tablet: not Apple, but Macintosh

The first Macintosh-based tablet was unveiled at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco.

The joint development of Axiotron and Other World Computing has been dubbed ModBook, the world's first Macintosh-based tablet to run Mac OS X by default.

Being a tablet, the developers, keeping in mind the needs of the target customer audience, decided to abandon the keyboard altogether and choose the stylus-touch solution as one of the possible input methods.

As the name of the ModBook suggests, it’s really nothing more than a redesigned MacBook. One of the leading manufacturers of digital whiteboards, Wacom, was asked to make its display. Accordingly, it has been endowed with very pleasing capabilities, fully supporting the so-called Inkwell writing and gesture recognition technology found in Mac OS X.

The tablets, which are currently only available in the US, are available with three levels of equipment, two of which include built-in GPS. The models, which are not very imaginative Good, Better, Best, are priced at 2199, 2399 and 2699 dollars, respectively.