The long-overdue ModBook Pro (http://www.modbook.com/modbookpro) is finally coming out. Apparently orders can be placed on Wednesday, October 3rd (http://www.modbook.com/september-2012-production-ordering-update).Would you be happy to spend more than 50 bucks on a product whose manufacturer may shut down in less than a year? ???
I am as excited about this product as I was two years ago. Hopefully it won't disappoint.
Would you be happy to spend more than 50 bucks on a product whose manufacturer may shut down in less than a year? ???
You know well before-hand that this whole concept brakes the Apple's eula. ::)
A) If it meets my needs, I don't really care. I have knowingly done this before and been happy to do so.A) Good for you. Hope not to get any in trouble with a brand new machine. Who will you ask support to when the maker doesn't exist anymore?
B) I think you are incorrect. A ModBook Pro is a re-cased genuine Apple MacBook Pro 13", stripped of its original case and keyboard, and placed in a custom housing. A ModBook Pro is not a hackintosh.
Aside: It is as though you didn't read the linked pages before posting. The LuLa forums aren't a competition to respond quickly with irrelevant and emotional comments.
A) Good for you. Hope not to get any in trouble with a brand new machine. Who will you ask support to when the maker doesn't exist anymore?
B) Come on. It's not a "DIY kit", it a whole new computer, made with some parts from an original Apple machine and sold on a different brand. It sounds totally like an illegal move to me.
Aside: I read the page before replying, even those tiny foot notes which made me laugh. The whole concept screams "Let's hope to sell as many as we can before Apple sues us.", IMHO.
As my nickname may suggest, I know the whole Apple world quite well and this is not the first manufacturer to try this move.
LuLa forum is getting full of rude people, instead. ::)
I won't reply your offense. Not worth it. Peace :)
This isn't an EFI firmware hack to run OS X on non-Apple hardware, which violates the EULA.
Apparently, it includes a complete MacBook Pro, which means the software does run on Apple hardware. That was one of the reasons "cloners" ran in trouble in the past. Seems the screen is replaced by a Wacom tablet. Doesn't seem fundamentally different, from a legal point of view, from running the laptop with an external screen while having the original screen turned off. While I have no doubt Apple, if it wants to do so, will find any reason to fire its legal gun, I don't believe Apple has a basis to prevent people from buying a MacBook, putting it in another enclosure and adding another screen.
Any specific part of the EULA you are referring to?
"the Modbook was introduced in the 2007 Macworld Conference & Expo. It won a Best in Show award at that same conference."You know that Apple has nothing to do with Macworld Conference, right?
Either they did not intend to sue, in which case, if the issue is so close to your heart, you should probably contact them to offer your legal services, or they did not notice the existence of the Modbook in which case you should probably contact them to offer technology watch services.This is the full stop for the discussion. You're so funny. :D
Using a board nickname as argumentum ad verecundiam seems a bit far fetched to me. While we are used to the unrelated PhD, we haven't had nicknames yet.Who said that? I did not. My appreciation for—and knowledge of—the californian brand is the causa, while the nickname is the effectum. Not the other way around.
This is the full stop for the discussion. You're so funny. :D