Maybe 5 years ago — or at least before the iPad — the unicorn , double rainbow desire for all Mac user was a touchscreen MacBook Pro Tablet . The mogul of a MacBook Pro combined with OS X , on a touchscreen gimmick . Nice , right ? But can you imagine grease one’s palms one of those ‘ ModBook professional ’ for $ 3500 now ?
It ’s a passably hefty system — up to a 2.9 GHz processor , 16 GB RAM , all - SSD storage and a 512 pen pressure levels — but that can get even pricier , closely 5 grand for the maxed out options . The ModBook Pro will ship in mid - November but requires a $ 500 deposit . Here ’s what the ModBook Pro folk say about it :
As the only OS ex tab information processing system of its kind , the Modbook Pro can be arrange to come preinstalled ( via OS X ’s Boot Camp ® utility ) with Windows 7 as a junior-grade operating system , or even to boot natively into Windows 7 right field out of the boxwood . The dynamic Cartesian product configurator also allows customer to build up out a full background frame-up with up to two standard or Wacom ® penenabled large - screen displays , adding a maximum of 5020 by 1600 pel ( two 2560 - by-1600 - pixel external displays ) to the Modbook Pro ’s work up - in 1280 by 800 pixel screen .
I mean , indisputable it sounds bang-up but does anyone desire this any longer ?
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