As we reported yesterday, big things are afoot at Modbook. The Los Angeles-based company has been steadily building buzz through their Facebook page, where they’ve sent out some cryptic pictures and yesterday teased an announcement. It all culminated in today’s unveiling of the Modbook Pro, an entirely redesigned redesigning of a MacBook Pro.
The Modbook is a Frankenstein tablet, which – through a series of rather incredible modifications - make the MacBook into a sleek tablet with a Wacom digitizer (which delivers 512 levels of pen pressure). These tablets run the full Mac OS (as well as Windows) and have been big hits in the creative realm, where .
While we originally speculated on the possibility of a potential 15-inch Pro with Retina Display, Modbook opted to base the new model off the 13.3-inch base system.
The Modbook comes in a dark brushed metal finish and features something called 3D-GripFeet, which lets the tablet be propped at 50 degrees from all sides.
The Modbook Pro is coming in fall 2012, and they’ll release pricing in coming news – though safe money is this thing will be very, very expensive. An uncustomized MacBook Pro runs $1199, and we wouldn’t be at all surprised to see these go for triple that.
So what do you think? Do you have deep pockets and a deep need for a full Mac OS-based tablet?
We'll report back as soon as pricing is available.
Source : ign[dot]com
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