Axiotron has the upgrade bug again, and it's making a litany of small, useful improvements to its Modbook that add up to a seriously improved machine. For starters, the rig now has a new hardware controller board for improved sleep, battery and system performance. Moreover, a fresh bonding process for the AnyView LCD panel and paper-emulating ForceGlass screen cover results in a "better contrast ratio, a firmer etched drawing surface, and decreased parallax between pen tip and cursor." Also of note, the updated beast incorporates the company's QuadCoat process, which protects the top shell with a liquid metallic coating and decreases the weight to 5.3-pounds. The Modbook starts at $2,249 by itself, or users can convert their non-aluminum Core 2 Duo-based Macbook into one starting at $1,299.

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div align="center"a href="http://www.axiotron.com/index.php?id=36amp;tx_ttnews%5BpS%5D=1228418825amp;tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=109amp;tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=42amp;cHash=0b37287b58"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/12-4-08-modbook.jpg" //abr //div a href="http://www.axiotron.com/index.php?id=36amp;tx_ttnews%5BpS%5D=1228418825amp;tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=109amp;tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=42amp;cHash=0b37287b58"Axiotron/a has the a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/02/modbook-upgraded-now-up-to-2-4ghz-160gb/"upgrade bug/a again, and it's making a litany of small, useful improvements to its a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/Modbook/"Modbook/a that add up to a seriously improved machine. For starters, the rig now has a new hardware controller board for improved sleep, battery and system performance. Moreover, a fresh bonding process for the AnyView LCD panel and paper-emulating ForceGlass screen cover results in a "better contrast ratio, a firmer etched drawing surface, and decreased parallax between pen tip and cursor." Also of note, the updated beast incorporates the company's QuadCoat process, which protects the top shell with a liquid metallic coating and decreases the weight to 5.3-pounds. The Modbook starts at $2,249 by itself, or users can a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/axiotron-modservice-takes-your-sad-disused-macbook-converts-it/"convert/a their non-aluminum Core 2 Duo-based Macbook into one starting at $1,299.pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/laptops/" rel="tag"Laptops/a, a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/tabletpcs/" rel="tag"Tablet PCs/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/axiotron-tweaks-modbook-for-better-stronger-faster-performance/"Axiotron tweaks Modbook for better, stronger, faster performance/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:40:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.axiotron.com/index.php?id=36amp;tx_ttnews%5BpS%5D=1228418825amp;tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=109amp;tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=42amp;cHash=0b37287b58Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/axiotron-tweaks-modbook-for-better-stronger-faster-performance/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1391759/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/axiotron-tweaks-modbook-for-better-stronger-faster-performance/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/rjOdYKcTe72F_PTAHBQsKJsZVok/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/rjOdYKcTe72F_PTAHBQsKJsZVok/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=0fOzxGOY"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=0fOzxGOY" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=htatcpH1"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=htatcpH1" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/YQV-IYhyJGE" height="1" width="1"/

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Alright, it's been over a year since I last posted here. Been busy :(:D

My rig right now consists of:

AMD64 3200+
2 GB PC3200
Evga 6600
a 350W PSU

I have a few questions for you guys if you wouldn't mind :)

I want to get either the Powercolor or Sapphire HD 3850 AGP to replace the ancient 6600 in this rig. That being said:

1. Will my PSU be able to run the card? Replacing the PSU isn't an option sadly.

2. Which drivers would you recommend if I actually get the card. And what about all this hotfix stuff I read everywhere?

Now I know regardless that I am going to be seriously bottlenecked on this rig if I get the 3850. But realisitically, what kind of performance increase would I be likely to see over my current 6600 card? I mean, I don't expect to be able to run Crysis maxed out or anything. But GTA4 on this rig runs at literally 2 or 3 fps. I just want to know if I could actually play it at a decent frame rate with some details not on super low :(

I've had a few friends tell me to get the 3650 instead of the 3850 due to the PSU issue, but I've also seen many people online comment how they run the 3850 on a 350W PSU with no trouble. So, I don't know what to do. What do you guys suggest?

hey all, im thinking of upgrading to 4gb of ram after installing Vista64 and noticing some games stutter a little (or a lot if its CoH opposing fronts), but instead of buying a whole new system i'm just thinking of using 4x1gb of DDR ram to hold me over till spring.

Anyone know of any serious issues w/ 4x1gb DDR sticks?(especially w/ DFI mobos) i know it'll reduce my overclock (by only a little i hope), and that i'll hafta run 2t, but is that it or does it just mess everything up? its $40 after rebate for an extra 2x 1gb kit so i figure why not? however, if its gonna be more headache then its worth then i'll just wait.

thanks for any opinions.