upgrades/storage/memory
01/26/2007, 1:10pm, EST
Friday, January 26th
OWC lowers ModBook, Quickview pricing
Other World Computing (OWC) has lowered the prices on its new Axiotron ModBook Mac OS X tablet solution, as well as its Maxtor Quickview 500GB SATA I/II 3.0G hard drive and its Mercury On-The-Go portable solutions. OWC is offering the Mac tablet at $2,200 for a limited time until February 1st with a free GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) receiver, a one-year OWC warranty, and free delivery in the U.S. The company's Maxtor Quickview 500 GB SATA I/II 3.0G Hard Drive is available for $135 boasting a 7200RPM A/V class drive with a 16MB buffer and a five-year warranty. Additionally, OWC is offering its Mercury On-The-Go portable FireWire 400/USB 2.0 hard drives with up to 200GB of storage space at discounted rates. Mercury On-The-Go drives are priced at $115 (40GB), $125 (60GB 5400RPM), $130 (80GB 5400RPM), $150 (60GB 7200RPM), $150 (100GB 5400RPM), $150 (120GB 5400RPM), $170 (80GB 7200RPM), $200 (100GB 7200RPM), and $220 (160GB 5400RPM). [corrected]
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I guess Apple knew what they were doing after all.
I'm sure apple did a lot of research on that idea and found it's not worth it. The modbook will soon prove it.
Field data collection (Medical, Construction, Food Prep/Testing/Inspection, etc) Art (graphic design, etc) GPS (in car nav most likely) College notebook (take notes, write reports and sketch in one device)
A tablet should be smaller. the size of a sheet of paper or less, if Apple does give us a tablet (OS X on a Chip in iPhone and the talk of flash based HDDs means it's possible we'll see one) it will be tiny, thing and need a host Mac or PC to likely get software sent to it, unless you connect up a USB CD drive to it. I can see it, and I think there is a larger market for it than many give credit.
That is called the Newton. I think they're still available on eBay. ;-)