Modbook Mac Tablet: Where Did You Go? - Krazy Ken's Tech Talk

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The now rare Modbook Mac tablet was successful at one time, but when $1,800,000 is raised for a product that never shipped, the investors grow impatient, and the story gets a little dicey…
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@snazzy 3 года назад

That's gotta be in the top 10 intros on RU-vid.

@alisonbolinger8700 3 года назад

Hello snazzy

@Nonje4560 3 года назад

1 minute gang

@TCHGOD 3 года назад

Exactly.

@b3ans4eva 3 года назад

Eat up Martha.

@NLind 3 года назад

IKR? He absolutely nailed the look and feel of Apple's Keynote presentation slides, like the black--grey gradient.

@chinchilla2302 3 года назад

>eat up, Martha Enjoyed that Simpsons Newton reference.

@MrMorseng 3 года назад

>:eatupmarrybia

@WJCTechyman 3 месяца назад

Beat Up Martin (in fairly decent cursive) Eat up Martha (Newton's interpretation) With a grunt, throws Newton at Martin

@3possumsinatrenchcoat 3 года назад

so basically you're saying is this is the tech version of that homestuck kickstarter

@CanMav 3 года назад

I read that as Homestar runner lol

@3possumsinatrenchcoat 3 года назад

@@CanMav if only we could be so lucky

@primemeow 3 года назад

I mean hiveswap existed but yeah

@3possumsinatrenchcoat 3 года назад

@@primemeow 1/8th of what was promised (2 4-chapter games) 6 years later and being put on permanent hiatus, not really. someone finally compiled all the drama into a proper expose and it took literally 4-5 hours to read through fully

@whatisfzeroanymore2nd 3 года назад

@@3possumsinatrenchcoat didn't it get turned into PesterQuest though?

@richfiles 3 года назад

4:09 I spot a teenage robot! Nice Jenny art!

@voidyt9939 3 года назад

@Connie_TinuityError 11 месяцев назад

weiiiiiiiiii

@GoAnimations 3 года назад

12:10 the 16 inch MBP didn't release until 2019.

@luxembourger 3 года назад

Yeah, he probably meant the 15 Inch with Touchbar and butterfly keyboard .

@ComputerClan 3 года назад

Oops. I meant to say 15.

@rxgtv 3 года назад

@JustAdam dude you play Minecraft

@RickClark58 3 года назад

Moore's Law strikes again. This is a perfect example of a great idea becoming obsolete before being realized due to the rapid advance of technology.

@zaferoph 3 года назад

Honestly, this is less about rapid advance of technology and more the simple barrier everyone in life faces at some point, money.

@Sarge92 3 года назад

that's not what moores law is ...

@RickClark58 3 года назад

@@Sarge92Yes, it is. The speed at which technology changes is directly tied to the increase in computing power, not just of computers, but all electronic technology. TVs went from large vacuum tubes to thin panels, and the speed of that change is directly tied to the increase of computing power of those TVs. The became smaller, faster and cheaper than earlier models st an ever increasing rate.

@chrisbaker8533 3 года назад

@@RickClark58 No, moore's law wasn't the problem, there weren't any technological changes, there was just physical(housing) changes. And that was always going to be the problem with this product. A housing that worked on one generation, might not work on the next, just because of a screw placement change. The touchbar exacerbated this by adding not only a design problem, but an integration problem. That is, where do you put it on the housing? Frankly, this product was DOA from the get-go. By 2008 when the first one came out, HP was already on their 4th-5th generation of purpose built products, Convertible laptops. Other than being a mac, there's nothing particularly special about this machine in the computer market.

@Sarge92 3 года назад

@@RickClark58 no moores law is the number of transistors in a package will double every two years moores law never dealt with concepts of hardware becoming obsolete before being realized it simply stated every 2 years youll double the number of transistors able to be fit in a given space and its not even a law despite people liking to call it that anyone with a understanding of exponential growth could figure out that this could never last more forever either your going to end up unable to make transistors that small or you'll end up needing a transistor to be sub atomic in size

@Miasmark 3 года назад

The fact that they had a track record already is why I had invested in the company. There is definitely a market for it but I guess something ran away from the founder. I suspect that part of what happened was the extra expenses of the redesign and mission creep. It seems like Haas wanted this to be more of a universal modkit and knowing apple that was not going to work. Honestly should have stuck with the modbook designery and worried about add-ons and flexibility of functions later.

@djneo92nl 3 года назад

At 12:11 you says the new 16 inch MacBook pro. But that came out in 2019. In 2016 was the 15,4 inch macbook pro with touchbar

@ComputerClan 3 года назад

Didn't the little disclaimer bar pop up? Unless for some reason you can't see RU-vid cards, it should've popped up and corrected my error. : c

@therobb5738 3 года назад

I absolutely want one of the modbooks you have in this episode. Extremely cool device, as well as the clamshell in the background.

@TheTransitmtl 3 года назад

The 16 inch was launched in 2019. The 13 and 15 inch touchbar are 2016 products. There was no 16 inch model at the time you mentioned

@awadatashii 3 года назад

Bummer. I found this video after noticing Modbook.com is now gone. I had the first gen Modbook. Due to a shipping mishap, it arrived terribly damaged and never worked right. Regardless, even in its battered form, it seemed like a device that was both well thought out and had great potential. Haas himself even talked to me over the phone to help me resolve the matter. Business can be a viscous counterpart to passion unfortunately.

@armandomagana8540 3 года назад

I would like to see someone else pick up the project and make available to everyone to make their own

@ZX3000GT1 3 года назад

You can always build it yourself if you want. Just rig up a digitizer pulled from a wacom tablet or some other compatible sensor, ensuring that the digitizer has the same size as your macbook's display size, then install it onto your macbook's display assembly. I personally use a ThinkPad X220 Tablet which I Hackintoshed myself. Since the ThinkPad has both a 2-point capacitive touchscreen and an internal Wacom digitizer built right onto the display, the touch works out of the box.

@ZX3000GT1 3 года назад

For those who wanted a touchscreen mac - just get yourself an X220 Tablet, then Hackintosh it. I'm running that setup and it works just fine.

@LegoWormNoah101 2 года назад

I have an X220t. How easy was the hackintosh portion?

@ZX3000GT1 2 года назад

@@LegoWormNoah101 Quite easy. There's a guide out there, just search for X220T hackintosh, there would be a guide by McDonnell Tech. You're stuck with High Sierra though unless you want to do some patching. X230T is better since the HW is better supported for newer mac OSes.

@iceteadeez83 2 года назад

at 3:50 i was like "oh crap hes gonna lose the balance and drop it"

@felinehermetica 3 месяца назад

This is actually really freaking cool. You could send your MacBook and they’d make you a mod book?! We need more of those type of work. I love it.

@ronakpatel7919 3 года назад

My friends dad owns a oil company here in Texas and they have like 10 of these because it was what there on site techs used in west texas because they needed some mac only software and they are real cool in real life

@bookmedia67 2 года назад

So glad you made this video. Loved the intro. I remember being super excited about Modbook in 2010, but I never bought one. Checking in years later to see what happened.

@georgeh6856 2 года назад

I paid for a product I saw on Kickstarter years ago. The product was a set of glasses with a built-in camera to record what you saw. But when you pay on Kickstarter, you are not paying for a product; rather, you are making an investment and if that investment works out, you may be sent the product you want. Since the fledgling camera glasses company was taking pre-orders on their website for the same price, I placed a pre-order instead. I am very happy I did. After delays and typical BS from Kickstarter projects, several months past the estimated ship date I finally cancelled my pre-order and received a full refund. I don't think the people who used Kickstarter ever got their money back.

@prycwrn 3 года назад

i swear if the modbook relaunches again all the artists are gonna come for it. all in one graphic tablet pcs are much needed these days.

@AtrocityEquine01 8 месяцев назад

"That's all I got for today." And thus, was the final words of Andreas Haas, and we haven't heard from him since.

@davidempire4874 3 года назад

I have an idea for how ModBook could be revived: Put the internals of the new Apple Silicon Macs with the M1 chip into the body of a modern tablet, like the iPad Pro. Give it a proper multi-touch high resolution display with pressure sensitive stylus, and maybe even 120hz refresh rate, and Smart Connector-like keyboard and trackpad support, running macOS Big Sur, of course. This would be the ideal tablet for professionals who just can’t get enough out of the iPad Pro, and with a new 5nm fanless ARM SoC, it could likely fit into the body of a thin and light modern tablet. Plus macOS Big Sur is remarkably touch-friendly.

@williamfaix3236 3 года назад

That into was truly a work of absolute genius

@sodorfootage 3 года назад

LOL 😂 the introduction

@scottcol23 2 года назад

I own a tablet PC with a CD ROM from 1995. It is the Ricoh 1200-S. It has a Color LCD (SVGA) with touch input through a pen. It has a Cyrix 486 50mhz processor, 2x CD ROM, 8mb ram (I upgraded to the max 32mb. takes standard 72pin DIMMs) 150mb PCMCIA type 3 Hard disk drive. The tablet was sold new with Win 3.1 but win 95 does work with some driver finessing . The thing was originally manufactured for the funeral industry. I also have a GRiDpad 1910 ,2260 and Pro11. they are all pen top computers as GRiD called them.

@windowsrocks3300 3 года назад

The best intro in the world.

@ComputerClan 3 года назад

Thank you : )

@windowsrocks3300 3 года назад

@@ComputerClan Welcome :D

@sonicunleashedfan124 3 года назад

If I remember correctly, there is now only one person still working at ModBook Inc.

@JeanRodo 3 года назад

The executive that started the company

@itzdex75 3 года назад

Can you upgrade that thing to its Max OS? OS El Capitan is the Max OS for the modbook you have right now.

@ComputerClan 3 года назад

Possibly. I heard it's tricky because the software update screw with the drivers that control the digitizer. But I know it can be done!

@itzdex75 3 года назад

Do a video upgrading it to El Capitan if you can!

@TJK152 3 года назад

You have a 2009 version you can patch Catalina or Big Sur on it make it a modern mac tablet.

@gsxerwhite Год назад

I remember seeing these in MacWorld magazine and wanting one badly. 2007? I think.

@HappiDapp 2 года назад

It's now been 3 years and still no modbook.

@senglrcmdr3384 3 года назад

Do a video about MagFast.

@ambientraindrop726 2 года назад

Love that reference at the start!

@NathanPa-xo3zj 3 года назад

Which one better to be used for artists? The Wacom or Modbook?

@DreamwithintheHeart 3 года назад

Technically they are both the same. The modbook uses Wacom touch technology from the time and tooks like a good alternative if you can afford an up todate and expensive screen tablet, but like he said, you might have a hard time finding it and price may vary.

@NathanPa-xo3zj 3 года назад

@@DreamwithintheHeart thats pretty interesting thanks for the info xD

@sgirix65 3 года назад

So the Axiotron ModBook is basically a Mac conversion like in the 80s when Colby Corporation and Outbound Systems make Laptops out of Macintosh Plus before Apple released PowerBook.

@lunathecutest6652 Год назад

I got an ad for those damn air coolers below your video. Why RU-vid

@PlytkaChodnikowa 3 года назад

I'm on the premier for the first time

@EpicB 3 года назад

I like to think the Modbook is an alternate universe version of the iPad.

@onradioactivewaves 3 года назад

Great Job! Typing this from my Apple LISA

@larrynavarro70 3 года назад

Too bad.I was using my mod book pro for daily professional illustration up until 2019 .There was no way to upgrade the processor ( of course) and no way to keep up with current versions of Photoshop and 3d programs. The product still works but not powerful anymore with todos'a requirements People were bragging to me about their iPads for work but there was no way for them to connect ethernet cable to connect to the companies servers or run full adobe photoshop CC with many layers , adjustment layers and filters. technology keeps moving ahead. The mod book was great while it lasted.

@matth7443 2 года назад

Left a comment on another video of yours pal :)

@onigvd77 Год назад

I believe the modbook was heavily featured in the Sanctuary SciFi show :)

@JamesR624 3 года назад

A ModBook Pro X with Big Sur would be amazing. Honestly, Big Sur to me is a big clue that eventually Apple'll do a touchscreen pro mac. Big Sur's interface makes little sense for trackpad and mouse, it can run iPad Apps on M1 equipped machines, and macOS's gestures have been touchscreen friendly for a *lonnng* time now.

@R4tdepic 3 года назад

That was a really good Simpsons reference, really subtle too

@paulmuaddib451 3 года назад

Haas and Woz, thanks, that's my band name now.

@ComputerClan 3 года назад

Yeah, every time I said their name, I enjoyed the rhyme. : p

@prismstudios001 3 года назад

I screen mirror my iPad Pro on my pavilion 23 desktop,and it’s flawless!

@charlyzzz 3 года назад

It's fun the insistance to get a hacky touch Macbook, when a) apple will not hear about for whatever reasons b) better products exist on the market on anything but mac

@aneshc3 3 года назад

12:11 16‘ MacBook Pro 🤔

@tonytins 2 года назад

Lawmakers: The "first-sale doctrine" is perfect! What could go wrong? *Napster has entered the chat.*

@Roadent1241 3 года назад

I.... I don't know why the first thought I had on seeing that 'chunky' old Mac design with a CD drive was "Cor! That would be a great way to play Muppet Treasure Island portably!" .... Apparently using all them Disney games along with Spin Doctor (Which I would LOVE to play again, I found a ROM, but not an emulator that I can install without screwing it up somehow) and writing fanfics before I knew what fanfics were, is all I remember of the old Max XD Now I wonder if I can get that old 'chunky' design for the Ipad.... Imagine how much protection it would give as well, good for my cracked screen XD

@jordansean18 3 года назад

I seriously wanted one of these back in the day!!

@BossVideo505 3 года назад

0:01 when Clan as Steve Jobs

@Hissymaster 8 месяцев назад

nice imitation of the iPhone launch, Ken!

@Enxvinity404 3 года назад

This dude should get more views and subs ngl

@ComputerClan 3 года назад

I will humbly say that I agree.

@t1m3f0x 25 дней назад

Wouldn't the apple equivalent of a Surface Studio be an iMac running iPad OS?

@hugevibez 3 года назад

I wanted one of those original bad boys so bad back in the day, but the price was prohibitive.

@deangar4 3 года назад

The iPhone was not the first multi-touch device, the year before was already released the iPad touch

@paxbustamantesheherhers8612 3 года назад

You should do one more of your videos. That talk about spam ads. You should do mag fast.

@drewcyprus3714 3 года назад

Best intro ever !!

@jazzpear8877 2 года назад

This thing looks so cool.

@icannotbeseen 2 года назад

I would have killed for that to draw on. But I guess my iPad provides similar functionality

@vlogmaster9568 3 года назад

Is that imac in the background a g5 or core duo?

@insainllama 3 года назад

Intel. The iSight camera is usually a good way to tell.

@kyliandc9276 3 года назад

@@insainllama Last G5 models had Isight too

@phillips2683 9 месяцев назад

Good Steve Jobs impersonation!!!

@jadenBerr2006 3 года назад

I wonder if the 2009 modbook could work with dosdude1's macOS patcher....

@WalnutSpice 3 года назад

The amount of operating systems that poor iMac has seen

@heyboat1 2 года назад

What happens if you install newer OS’s on the ModBooks like Catalina? Does the pen functionality work still, Since the MB5,2 is supported by dosdude’s patchers and the ModBook is a modified MB5,2, It technically should work.

@rnnto 3 года назад

3:37 ... never?

@ComputerClan 3 года назад

Exactly… that's why it was a rhetorical question. : p

@jwalkgujy 3 года назад

I still have my modbook! I can't get it to power on and can't find anyone willing to service the device..

@topkek3409 3 года назад

Are you looking to sell it?

@cat1554 3 года назад

Same issue here. Since I know quite a lot about MacBooks, I might try to repair it.

@geoometrics 3 года назад

oh no, at 14:02 is that mark robinson of porter robinson's brother? cuz i remember he's into artist & design (also made some visuals either for merch or porter's Virtual Self)

@elleriahankins9003 3 года назад

Is it more possible for this to officially happen now that Apple has the M1? Like a MobileStudio Pro with MacOS?

@Lucas-pw8fi 3 года назад

on point 2:38 where did you get that book and or what is the title of it and where can I purchase it

@ComputerClan 3 года назад

2:54 ; ) AppleDesign by Paul Kunkel. It documents the Apple Industrial Design Group. It went out of print about 20-ish years ago, but you might be able to find a copy on eBay or something. Thanks for watching : )

@taylornicty1170 3 года назад

After getting into 3D art I went from Mac book pro to Surface Book because Apple doesn't offer touch screen support and they should really look into it. I'm not trying to be a apple hater but I'm just trying to be honest. I have friends who also dropped apple for the lack of touch. I know you can plug in a wacom cintiq but its just not the same and cost more money then just buying a Surface Book. And yes I do agree wacom drawing tec is better but N-trig isn't that bad anymore. I hope the rumors of apple going touch on there next apple silicon device is true.

@MaximNightFury 3 года назад

I'm here during the stream

@robbh7206 3 года назад

Love your videos an I'm not even a tech guy ..an your shirt is amazing 💯

@lakojake4215 3 года назад

I think you meant to write "Beat up Martin".

@MyIronman8 3 года назад

Actually I had one of those at one point in time. Oh it is a MacBook and they take the L the screen off and they put a touch screen on it

@markschwartz9905 3 года назад

that's a really cool collectable. wish I had one!

@WJCTechyman 3 месяца назад

I wouldn't want a mac then (when you released this video) or now because you are paying thousands of dollars for something that will end up in the scrap pile in about 3-5 years. At least with my PCs I can upgrade them and replace faulty components. Also, Windows has improved fairly well over the last couple of decades and Ubuntu, the operating system I am using on the Dell Latitude I am typing this on has surpassed Apple Macs with Mac OS in usability, stability and functionality. Granted, there are some tweaks here and there but most people can probably pick up a copy of Ubuntu and use it with very little to no issue.

@alexyo3927 Год назад

Two years after this video. What now?

@Connie_TinuityError 11 месяцев назад

Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

@zaynal-khalidi8801 3 года назад

is this the same Haas in F1?

@Amphibax 3 года назад

The iPad pro came and that probaly killed the product in the end

@issasecretbuddy 3 года назад

now that you can run ios apps on an m1 chip, it would actually make a lot of sense for this to come back

@LegoWormNoah101 2 года назад

I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple retired iPadOS

@Nyle95 3 года назад

Love the reference at 5:13

@lenadams854 3 года назад

Hes s'posed to say beat up martha

@salmahyenasashimicheetah6888 Год назад

Well, Samsung owns part of wacom, and then apple cut ties with Samsung, so I'm sure the feud had something to do with it.

@inkassso 3 года назад

What the hell is this?

@inkassso 3 года назад

Never mind, got it

@sentry1234 3 года назад

Im on the stream EDIT: it just ended when i posted the comment

@wadestudios231 3 года назад

What happen to mod book

@blu_subwoofer6714 3 года назад

I WANT THIS ONE!!!!!!!!!

@kyuevren 3 года назад

this is more proof that people were here for da stream

@SamAdamsDesigns 3 года назад

I wanted this soooooo bad in high school

@prismstudios001 3 года назад

……. And it’s a freaking iPad Pro…………..i gotta enjoy this on something too……Apple Pencil/magic keyboard……kicks that thing’s ass!

@fatboygaming451 3 года назад

Eat up Martha, love the ashens reference.

@ComputerClan 3 года назад

As much as I LOOOOVE Ashens, we were both reference The Simpsons with that joke. But good to see another Ashens fan. : D

@copy.floppy 3 года назад

IM the 10 one

@urielc918 3 года назад

6st

@MrMegaManFan Год назад

I see Jenny XJ-9, I like.

@sethadling3043 3 года назад

Oh look its zim

@archerhitthetarget 3 года назад

Nah, they'd rather sell the MacBook and Ipad pro separately and charge over $1,000 for each

@albaformiga7932 3 года назад

I think they're in this situation because they flew too near to the sun, wanted the product to do more stuff than it actually could. They should just added a touch screen to a retina MacBook

@ComputerClan 3 года назад

But that would be practically useless. You couldn't rest your hand on it or do drawing. The computer would be unbalanced due to the hinge's design.

@amdintelxsniperx 3 года назад

i want one so bad mac os is PERFECT FOR TOUCH.............

@ComputerClan 3 года назад

It is?

@amdintelxsniperx 3 года назад

@@ComputerClan well the buttons and icons are big and bubbly . I modded a tablet to boot mac osx el cap and while it didn't have full acceleration it was fun to use

@stevebranton3067 Год назад

0:39

@7389ma 3 года назад

Or maybe the owe money to other companies that is why you have never heard from them

@KOSMOS1701A 3 года назад

isn't the new iPad with the apple pen an equivalent of the Microsoft Surface, i mean feel free to correct me if im wrong.

@ComputerClan 3 года назад

I mean… sure? But I'm not quite sure why you're asking? : o In the episode, I said maybe we'll see Apple make a Mac-equivalent version of the Surface Studio-meaning a Mac (not an iPad) which is similar to the Surface Studio's massive size (28-inch display).

@KOSMOS1701A 3 года назад

@@ComputerClan Yeah, i was mostly thinking about the Modbook Pro X with the whole tablet and removable keyboard when i asked that question, i guess i wasn't entirely listening to what you said.

@ComputerClan 3 года назад

@@KOSMOS1701A It's all good. Bottom line, I think we both agree, the Modbook Pro X doesn't have a place anymore. 😞