They might have forgotten to mention WiFi, or there might not be room
in the Pro case.
5K$ might even be perfectly justified.
But it is an enormous price to pay - maybe not as bad as 10K$ (about
20K$ in `08$) for a Lisa-I, or 5K$ (=10K$) for a Lisa-II, but still a
pretty awesome chunk for any digital artist I know!
On 8. Jan., 2009, at 00:27 AM, Tony Morrow wrote:
> I find it hard to believe that Axiotron wouldn't include wifi. Their
> regular modbook page doesn't make any mention of wireless, but does
> on the tech specs page.
>
> For the $3000 difference in a MacBook Pro and ModBook Pro, I think
> most of it can be justified. The wacom Cintiq LCD monitor/tablet
> starts at $999 and runs up to $1999. There is the custom designed
> case that costs to manufacture and install the components into.
> Finally there is the software that is bundled into the entire
> package. We may think $5000 for a complete tablet mac is outrageous,
> but i'm sure $699 for the OMP in 1993 was too (pulled those numbers
> from apple-history.com).
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