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Resistive touch-screens are great when you have a stylus in-hand, capacitive screens offer more finesse when you’re going at it with fingertips, and both are about useless when you’re wearing gloves (for now, anyway). That changes with the projective capacitive screen, able to offer responsiveness to a bare fingertip and also react to non-conductive objects like styli, and it’s that type of screen that Axiotron’s MacBook-based Modbook tablets will be seeing in the near future thanks to a partnership with Touch International. Starting next month, Modbook buyers will be able to add a Synergy Touch screen as an option, while those going for the 15.4-inch Modbook Pro will receive one as standard. No word on what this accessory will cost, but we think it’s a shame the two couldn’t get these things to market before the end of glove season.

[Via Gadgets.TMCNet.com]
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Although Axiotron’s Modbook and Modbook Pro look like they’re relatively simple creations — take off the original screen, install touch screen backwards — we’ve always assumed the process was much more complicated. Turns out we were wrong — if this Modservice video from TechRestore is to be believed, a normal MacBook will actually do most of the work for you, as long as you’re willing to provide the appropriate high-tech sound effects. Seriously, the DVD drive just reinstalls itself! Video after the break.
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While we sit around twiddling our thumbs waiting for Apple’s rumored resurrection of the Newton, we’ll occupy ourselves with the latest 3rd party Mac tablet — the Modbook Pro. Based off a 15-inch unibody MacBook Pro, the Modbook Pro has all the same ports as the standard model (including the ExpressCard/34 slot), supports both pen and touch input, and has a glossy black shell. Axiotron pre-installs Quicktouch software to aid those with fat fingers, and the screen is totally flush. However, nobody said that function came cheap — the Modbook Pro starts at $5k, but there’s a $400 discount available for Macworld.

[Via Boy Genius Report]