Product Description
What's New in the Modbook
More Graphics Power
The Modbook's new NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics chipset offers 5x faster graphics performance, handling graphics-intensive applications with ease.
Improved MacBook Compatibility
• Better system performance: With its redesigned Axiotron hardware controller board, the Modbook offers improved performance, a quicker boot time for the Axiotron system software and smoother integration with the Mac OS X operating system.
• Improved power usage: Get longer battery life with the more efficient Axiotron hardware controller board, including significantly less power drain in sleep mode.
• Full Bluetooth connectivity: Pair a keyboard or mouse just as you would on your MacBook.
Lightweight and Scratch-Resistant Coating
Axiotron's QuadCoat process — adapted from auto industry techniques — helps protect the Modbook's sturdy-yet-lightweight magnesium top shell while lowering the Modbook's weight.
With the new liquid metallic coating process and other changes the weight of the highly portable Modbook decreases to 5.3 pounds.
Enhanced Functionality
• Improved display characteristics and drawing surface: Axiotron's new proprietary bonding process decreases the gap between the AnyView LCD panel and ForceGlass screen cover. Result: better contrast ratio (especially outdoors), firmer drawing surface and reduced pen-to-cursor parallax.
• Enhanced GPS capability: The reconfigured GPS antenna obtains a four-satellite fix in an unobstructed outdoor area more easily, enabling the Modbook’s GPS module to furnish coordinate data to third-party GPS applications with greater reliability.
• Better pen tablet performance: Specially designed internal Mu-metal shielding, in addition to existing shielding, boosts pen tablet responsiveness by greatly decreasing the potential for interference from electronic noise sources.
New Software
Autodesk SketchBook Express 2009, an industry leading sketching and drawing application, is now exclusively available on the Modbook as part of its standard software package.
NEW! Axiotron Quickflip allows users of NVIDIA-powered Modbooks to switch their screen rotation in 90-degree increments, going from landscape mode to portrait mode and back again. (Available soon at no charge for download to any NVIDIA-powered Modbook.)
Improved Serviceability
The Modbook’s new bonding process, as well as other refined assembly procedures, have been designed to optimize field serviceability by Axiotron's recently expanded dealer network who can provide servicing and repair at convenient locations across the U.S. and Canada.