The Axiotron® Modbook® is the award-winning tablet Mac® computer that enables users to draw, sketch and write directly on the screen. A Real Apple MacBook Inside
The Modbook is built from a genuine Apple® MacBook®. Axiotron’s innovative design and manufacturing process converts a MacBook computer into a super graphics tablet that gives you all the functionality of a MacBook with a pen interface.
Once you experience the freedom to create with a Modbook, you’ll never want to go back to your desk again.
Create. Anywhere.
The revolutionary Modbook gives creative professionals and artists the perfect productivity tool: a tablet Mac that lets you draw, sketch and paint anywhere and everywhere you go! Unleash your creativity in the environments that inspire it, not just while you’re tethered to a desk. Sit and draw under a tree, in a coffee house, on a long flight – anywhere you take your Modbook, anywhere the inspiration strikes.
Pen-Powered Artistry
Detailed, colorful renderings flow from the tip of your pen and jump off the Modbook’s screen. No need to lug around a separate plug-in tablet device, paper, pencils or anything else. Just bring your Modbook and your imagination.
Draw right on the etched ForceGlass™ screen with 512 levels of pen pressure sensitivity – more than any tablet computer. The included Axiotron Digitizer Pen needs no batteries and always feels light and nimble. It provides an intuitive and comfortable way to control your digital environment.
And for fast text input, Axiotron’s Quickscript™ handwriting recognition software converts printed and handwritten text into recognizable characters with remarkable accuracy.
Imaginative Know-How
Think Modbook and think artistic usability. Unlike a touchscreen, artists can work with the pen while their hand rests right on the Modbook’s screen. And it’s not a cheap plastic screen that wears down – it’s Axiotron ForceGlass, chemically strengthened and acid-etched to simulate paper. The Modbook uses a Wacom Penabled® digitizer, the best pen tablet technology available. And in the Mac OS X environment, applications like Adobe Photoshop® and Corel Painter™ work the way you always wanted them to.
The Modbook can be your all-in-one studio and your mobile sketchbook.
Work Fast, Stay Connected.
The Modbook gives you power and speed. And it’s fun and easy to use. That’s because the Axiotron Modbook is a modified Apple MacBook® computer, operating on the smooth-running Mac OS® X platform and offering the same rich and varied media experience of an Apple MacBook.
Tough. By Design
Dual-plated magnesium internal frame. Triple-plated, satin chrome-finished top shell. Chemically strengthened Axiotron ForceGlass screen. The Modbook integrates components chosen for their high quality and state-of-the-art performance. It’s a device designed tough so you can take it with you. A device designed to last.
Putting the Fun in Functionalism
It’s a productivity tool, but it’s fun too. It’s a killer sketchpad for artists, but you can take notes using handwriting recognition or insert text with the Axiotron Quickclicks™ software keyboard. It’s a tablet Mac, but you can install Windows Vista® and make it a tablet PC.
Mobility, Maximized.
Time to hit the road. With its sleek, slate-style form, you can slip the Modbook in your bag and take it anywhere. It’s built for strength. But the Axiotron Modbook strikes a careful balance: the added sturdiness of its construction comes in a tablet computer only slightly heavier than its Apple MacBook base system!
It’s even got an optional built-in GPS system, so you can navigate and geotag as you travel.
Go mobile. Let your everyday life inspire your creative life.
State-of-the-Art Pen Input
The Modbook uses Penabled® digitizer technology from Wacom®, the leader in graphics tablets for professional artists. The Axiotron Digitizer Pen provides an intuitive, comfortable and flexible way to control your digital environment.
As you draw in applications such as Adobe® Photoshop® and Autodesk® SketchBook® the pen’s 512 levels of pressure sensitivity – more than any tablet PC – deliver precise and delicate control of renderings. The Axiotron Digitizer Pen is:
- Fast - 133 position updates per second
- Accurate - 20x display resolution
- Sensitive - 512 levels of pressure sensitivity
- Efficient - No batteries required
The included Axiotron Digitizer Pen features two programmable side buttons, plus a digital eraser. Also included are eleven replaceable pen tips in three versions: a spring-loaded Studio Nib (x3); a Pencil Nib (x3); and a Felt Nib (x5).
Users can work with the pen while their hand rests on the Modbook’s screen. The pen is battery-less and always feels light and nimble. Radio-based digitizer technology allows control of the cursor as the pen hovers over the screen, creating an intuitive, mouse-like interface.
Every Modbook comes pre-installed with Autodesk SketchBook Express, a sophisticated yet user-friendly sketching and drawing application with an easy-to-use, gesture-based interface that lets artists get to work immediately.
To enter text, users have a number of options. Handwriting recognition via Quickscript enables smooth entry of printed or handwritten text. Axiotron Quickclicks™ software permits users to quickly input passwords and special characters or execute shortcuts and macros. Users can also connect a standard keyboard and mouse via USB or Bluetooth.
Elegant Design, Quality Materials
Both the Modbook’s top shell and its interior frame are built from top-grade aircraft quality magnesium alloy for superior structural strength, and the top shell is protected by a QuadCoat™ liquid metallic finish.
The Modbook’s AnyView™ LCD panel is safeguarded by Axiotron ForceGlass™. ForceGlass offers excellent optical, anti-aging and scratch resistance properties.
An anti-reflective coating on the inward-facing side of the ForceGlass screen cover increases light transmissivity for a brighter image, while the etched surface of the ForceGlass provides a crisp, paper-like writing sensation.
The AnyView LCD panel and ForceGlass screen cover are sealed using a proprietary process that narrows the gap between the two components for improved contrast ratio (especially in outdoor environments), a firmer drawing surface, and decreased parallax between pen tip and cursor. These and other carefully balanced, high-quality components give Modbook users an unrivaled pen-based computing experience.
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Autodesk SketchBook Express 2009
Now available exclusively on the Axiotron Modbook!
Autodesk’s easy-to-use SketchBook® application comes to the Axiotron
Modbook with SketchBook Express 2009!
Designed for pen-based interaction, SketchBook Express is a perfect fit for the Modbook’s nimble and highly sensitive pen input system. And it’s the ideal tool for new users, who can start sketching in seconds and become productive in minutes.
A full version of SketchBook Express comes pre-installed on every Modbook at no additional charge, including Modbooks built through Axiotron Modservice. With SketchBook Express, the one and only tablet Mac® becomes the ultimate mobile digital sketchbook.
A studio in your hands
For artists who revel in the simplicity of a sketchpad, but live in the digital world. The Modbook and SketchBook Express are a complete drawing package. No distractions – let the world fade into the background as you shape your newest creation.
Conquer your digital life
Our digital lives can be hectic. With the Modbook and SketchBook Express you can focus more clearly on your art. You won’t spend a lot of time memorizing shortcuts or filter combinations. Just pick up the digitizer pen and draw. It's as simple as pencil and paper.
For drawing, period
SketchBook Express is not a photo editor. No massive filter packages, effects and plug-ins. No endless documentation and secret shortcuts to complicated techniques. SketchBook Express lets you get your work out onto a digital tablet, and be done.
Using Sketchbook Express on the Modbook
A complete and natural drawing experience
Whether you are a first-time user or a seasoned pro, the Modbook with SketchBook Express will change the way you express your creativity. The natural flow of the software – combined with the Modbook’s 512 levels of pen pressure sensitivity – enhances your creative process and keeps you moving.
Minimal learning curve
No need for classes or "how to" books. Just pick up the digitizer pen and work with ease.
Perfectly paired with the Modbook
SketchBook Express and the Modbook – one look and you know that they were made for each other. From the arced tool palate in the corner, to the flick and select tool options, SketchBook Express works smoothly with the Modbook’s tablet form factor and pen input system.
Gesture-based interface
You won’t be overwhelmed by endless windows and streams of drop-down menus. Instead, you know instantly where everything is. Like the Modbook, SketchBook Express keeps the artist in the creative flow at all times.
Etched ForceGlass screen simulates paper
The Modbook’s ForceGlass screen is acid-etched – designed to replicate the feel of paper when drawing with the digitizer pen for a naturalistic sketching experience in SketchBook Express.
A jumping-off point for sketch artists wanting to go digital
If you’re new to the digital art experience, the Modbook with SketchBook Express is for you.
Open your files into other programs
Sketchbook Express has no proprietary file format. The program opens and saves to industry standard formats, including TIF, BMP, JPG, GIF and PNG, and later you can open your flattened artwork in Adobe® Photoshop® or Corel® Painter™ for the next step in your creative process.
Sketchbook Express Tools & Technology
Unique arced tool palate
This is a tool palate you've never seen before: a simple arc gently tucked away in either lower corner – or hidden altogether if you want to clear the canvas and focus on your creations. The arced tool palate gives you one-flick access to major tools.
No mind-numbing image processing
There are no massive processor-crunching filters in Sketchbook Express. No relying on technology to make you "look" creative – rely on your own creativity instead!
Power without baggage
Artists should be creating, not studying user manuals. With Sketchbook Express there's no need for extensive tutorials and how-to guides. If you know how to use a pencil, you already have the skills needed to work with this package.
Layers support
In SketchBook Express, you have the flexibility to work with up to three layers (unlimited layer stacking is available if you upgrade to SketchBook Pro). Each layer has its own transparency slider and can be hidden when needed.
Move, rotate and scale
Perform three functions, all with one tool. Place the tool into position, then click and drag. It's that simple.
Simplified selection tools
Use both direct selection or lasso tools to define areas for editing.
Floating brush pad
No need to open a brush editor. SketchBook Express streamlines its tool palate and user interface for ease of use. Real world brush sizing, anywhere you want and on the fly using the unique one-flick brush resize tool.
Email your work
SketchBook Express automatically emails your artwork and annotations using your default email program – no need to leave the program to send out your work!
Order right now so you'll be ready with your ModBook when that creative breakthrough hits you!
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Finally. Do it all with one portable tool
Draw
Draw, sketch and paint right on the screen. Harness the Modbook’s razor-sharp pen sensitivity - unrivaled by any tablet computer. Create professional renderings anywhere you go.
Shoot
Snap photos, retouch images, present demos, organize your work – all while you’re on the road. Make the Modbook your mobile creative studio and boost your productivity.
Play
Compile playlists. Make DVDs. Chat. Surf the Web. Or curl up on the couch and watch a movie. Enjoy the full Apple media experience with your Axiotron Modbook.
Find
Navigate, geotag photos and drawings, map out your journeys. Get the lay of the land with the Modbook’s built-in global positioning system.
Technical Highlights
Built-in iSight Camera
The Axiotron Modbook uses the iSight® camera of its Apple MacBook base system. On the Modbook it is mounted with a downward tilt of five degrees to better frame the face of the user.
Runs Windows Vista
The Modbook supports Windows® Vista® (sold separately) by running Boot Camp® (included with Mac OS X), letting users turn their Modbook into a powerful tablet PC.
Crystal Clear Display
The Modbook’s new and improved AnyView LCD panel offers wide viewing angles (Horiz./Vert.: 100°/90°) and a high contrast ratio (500:1) for darker blacks and lush, saturated colors, with a display resolution of 1280x800 pixels and an aspect ratio of 113 ppi.
Built-in Mounting Locks
Inconspicuous locking points designed into the top shell, combined with an optional Modbook Quick-Release Bracket, allow the Modbook to be securely fastened to standard VESA-compatible desktop arms and vehicle mounts.
Optional Global Positioning System (GPS)
The Modbook features an optional built-in Global Positioning System (GPS) based on the SiRFstarIII™ chipset. Once a four-satellite fix is obtained in an unobstructed outdoor area, the optional Axiotron GPS Module can furnish coordinate data to third-party GPS applications.
Made by Hand in America
Every component unique to the Modbook is manufactured, refined and assembled by hand in the United States.
Technical Specifications
Base system|
Your choice of Apple MacBook computer
Operating system
Mac OS X
Processor
Determined by base system
Memory
Configurable
Hard disk drive
Configurable
Optical drive
Configurable
Battery
55-watt-hour lithium-polymer battery
Camera
Built-in iSight® camera|
Top shell
Magnesium with triple-layer metal plating and satin chrome finish Frame Aircraft grade magnesium alloy with dual-layer metal plating
Screen cover
Chemically strengthened, acid-etched Axiotron ForceGlass
Display
Axiotron AnyView™ 13.3-inch widescreen LCD (max resolution: 1280x800)
Digitizer
Wacom Penabled digitizer with 512 pen pressure sensitivity levels
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