At Long Bloody Bleedin' Flamin' Last...

I am ditching my Axiotron Modbook, and good riddance to the hunkajunk.

I'm sure alot of you have seen these macbook mods and thought geezy creezy, thats exactly what I need. I thought so too, until I made the grievous mistake of actually buying one.

I've had it for 2 years - (six months of which it was not working at all and finally took 600 bucks to fix- the 'mod' voids the original warranty of course)  and can generally say that when it actually worked, it was fine, great even .. but overall, it can't be depended on, except to freeze, lock up or crash completely when you need it most.

Its like the idea - turning a macbook pro into a tablet, the only one on the market at the time- was so good that they scrambled to get a slapdash operating system for it and get the sucker out on the market pronto, and if it never quite worked properly, well WTF right?
If it had ever worked properly, it would have been exactly what I need.

Instead, it was an overpriced, unreliable, clunky, heavy, poorly supported disaster area in a box, and quite possibly the biggest waste of time money and effort I ever bought. It cost me thousands more than the original price in repairs and lost work, tech support was a seldom visited BBS that was utterly useless, and- well, you get the picture.

Now, the stylus ( or more exactly, the crappy software thats supposed to drive it) has quit utterly,  what I'm left with is- just a macbook.

I'm going to donate the thing to a kids charity here, since the original macbook will still be a good learner rig for some cambodian schoolkid. If it quits on them, they can hollow it out and feed chickens with it or something.

So, if you have been looking at the ModBook, do yerself a favour and look at something else.
Anything else.