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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: tp4tissue on Tue, 27 April 2021, 16:41:42
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Show released in 2008, so had to be before like 2006-2007
It looks like a macbook from the drive side, buhhhhhhh.. the color
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Axiotron Modbook
https://appleinsider.com/articles/07/01/11/unofficial_mac_tablet_draws_record_crowd_at_macworld_high_res_photos
It was a prototype built from a Macbook that never really made it out into the world.
There are apparently a few out there but really rare, pretty much considered a holy grail of Macbooks.
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Ooooo.. somewhat affordable on ebay. only $700, core 2 duo, so one can use it for win7 no problem. Worth it ?
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Ooooo.. somewhat affordable on ebay. only $700, core 2 duo, so one can use it for win7 no problem. Worth it ?
Absolutely not.
Will it work for Win7, yes, but it's a C2D, even with an SSD it's going to be slow by modern standards. Remember, it's gen 2 sata at best, so sub 300MB transfer rates, plus slow dual core performance, slow USB performance... It's also going to be DDR2 which while I haven't looked lately, was difficult and expensive to get for quite a long time.
Then there is the fact that this was sort of a hack and built in limited numbers. Are there even Windows drivers for the screen? If it uses the wrong chipset there may not even be a good working video driver for Win7. Intel can be a real jerk when it comes to chipset and OS and certain chipsets did not get a Win7 driver, I think it was the 855 workstation chipset Intel just said "nope" and getting it to work on Win7 was a nightmare. My Fujitsu tablet (also C2d) used this and it was either use XP or put it on Linux, which is what I ended up doing.
And what will you do with it anyhow? And what's the point?
If you want a neat cool little older tablet, look into Fujitsu and Lenovos. If you want a Mac, buy a Mac. All are much cheaper and will do the job better. The only reason for this is if you REALLY want a Mac touchscreen, which you obviously don't since you want to put Windows on it, defeating the entire point.
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Snazzy labs did a video on it. Pretty interesting.