The original Modbook hails from 2008, when the company took plastic MacBooks, cut them in half and turned them into tablets.
Currently, you can just get a non-Retina MacBook Pro from the company. However, the company has launched a Kickstarter campaign is for a new product, based on the 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro.
If the $150,000 goal is met, customers will be able to send in their own machines for conversion at $1999 or reserve complete systems directly from Modbook starting at $3999.
The idea of the Modbook has always intrigued me, and I can see how designers or artists would be interested in it, but the Mac hardware nerd in me can’t help but wonder what terrible things happen to these MacBooks.