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Re:Axiotron - Modbook (the iPad we actually wanted) by Dav3xor on Sunday January 31, 2010 @01:21AM (#1090133)
My wife has a modbook, and it is made of unmitigated awesome. It's a little heavy, and the display is a bit dim because of the glass screen cover... But it's awesome. And the price is very reasonable. The stylus works really well (and comes with several different types of tips, including a felt tip that feels just right...)

She bought it to do UX design work with it, and started on a webcomic with it because she just liked playing with it so much. ArtRage is awesome on it.

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Re:Axiotron - Modbook (the iPad we actually wanted) by elblanco on Sunday January 31, 2010 @01:40AM (#1090160)
It's always surprised me that, given the number of artists Apple targets with their offerings, they have absolutely no offering like this that artists can use.

Here's a review of a similar workflow from 2002 by the Penny Arcade guys using a Windows tablet.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/2002/11/27/

and here is their take on the desire of web artists to have a tablet from Apple right before the iPad came out.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/1/22/

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Re:Axiotron - Modbook (the iPad we actually wanted) by Dav3xor on Sunday January 31, 2010 @02:04AM (#1090188)
Yeah, she she's spent a lot of time on setting it up to work (mostly) without a keyboard -- She says Quickscript is really good (but has some bugs). I want to play with it more myself, but it's one of those "you can have it when you pry it from my cold dead fingers" kinda deals.
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