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ModBook gets upgrades, coming in June

by Mat Lu May 29th 2007 at 8:40PM

Remember the ModBook, the only actual Mac announced at Macworld back in January from third-party vendor OWC? Well it's finally getting ready to ship. According to jkOnTheRun, an email has been sent out to those lucky few who pre-ordered based on the January specs, and OWC has announced that they're including some "free" upgrades. The digitizer sensitivity has been doubled to 512 levels. Furthermore, the basis of the ModBook mod will be the new MacBooks released this month, not those available in January. Other options include replacing the optical drive with a second hard drive for up to 500GB of internal storage as well as a total of 3GB of RAM. The email states that "these solutions are now expected to ship in very limited quantities starting in the early part of June with all orders expected to ship by the end of July." So if you ordered a ModBook it looks like you'll get it just in time to sync with your new iPhone!

[via Engadget]

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Didthedash

I've been waiting for my pre ordered modbook to ship since late april. Now it's apparently not shipping till late July. Something's going on here. Smells somewhat fishy.

I found this discussion site about modbook if anyone's interested, filled with disgruntled customers...goto...

http://groups.google.com/group/modbook/topics

... I read the comments and realise that I'm not the only angry bastard.

June 17 2007 at 6:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
derek

hmm only took 3 days after Engadget to post. why does engadget have more mac stuff than TUAW? anyone notice this?

May 29 2007 at 11:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
JD

That email promoting the the upgrade to 512-step sensitivity came to me on April 2. From the wording, it appeared to be just a driver improvement.

May 29 2007 at 10:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Keith

The one thing I love about blog entries on tuaw from endgadget is it takes at least a day for you to find it, or the same with Endgadget posting something from tuaw. Aren't you both owned by the same company?

May 29 2007 at 8:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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