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macOS on a tablet? I personally wouldn't cripple a touchscreen computer with a non-touchscreen OS.

Well, these guys have been doing that for 10 years now. The surface is just a lame copy.

And since they've been doing it for ten years - somebody must buy them.

Just by making an OS X tablet would get the tablet market back for Apple.

http://www.modbook.com/ - actually older than the iPhone.

Or will they, in two years form now?

Or maybe they let somebody else do it almost 9 years ago. http://www.modbook.com/

Or will they, in two years form now?

Why bother? If you want one bad enough, you can go buy one right now.

Of course, one could buy such a thing now:

http://www.modbook.com/

For my part, I picked up a Tablet PC and am working on getting OS X 10.6.8 installed on it.

It looks like some people missed the part where no tablet runs OS X.

It looks like some people never heard of the ModBook Pro.

Wacom just introduced something close to that, the Cintiq Companion --- your choice of Windows 8 or Android: http://cintiqcompanion.wacom.com/CintiqCompanion/en/

Press release: http://www.wacom.com/in/en/news/971

Same size as the ModBook Pro which has been out for a while: http://www.modbook.com/modbookpro-specs

Unfortunately, the iPad and Android Tablets pretty much killed off the Tablet PC, so there aren't any new tablets that I'm aware of in the 15--17" size range. There is the Sony Tap 20 if one wants to go larger, but it's not really portable:

http://store.sony.com/c/VAIO-Tap-20-Touchscreen-Computers/en/c/S_J2_SERIES_PAGE

MAC OS isnt available to license, what are you talking about?

Well, the availability of the license is extremely limited.

Back in the 90's, Apple tried selling conventional licenses. Very few companies were willing to pay Apple for the license, and switch suppliers for their most expensive chips, unless they were already invested in the Macintosh ecosystem. Though, I wonder how much Microsoft and Intel's predatory licenses contributed to that reluctance.

These days, if you want to sell a different computer with a legal MacOS license, essentially you have to buy a Mac and mod it. That's what Modbook, Inc. does.

I'll just leave this here: http://www.modbook.com/modbookpro

Who'll be first to get it to run on an x86 Surface tablet?

At $99 fire sale prices, those would be pretty decent with Lion added. Zoom the menus for touch with the magnify routines the dock uses?

A little (well, a lot) more expensive, but already done: http://www.modbook.com/modbookpro

It's such a ridiculous idea, he should go get a job at microsoft rather than develop a cool hack for the sake of doing it. I think I know where I smell the MS mentality, but it's not from camperslo.

Anyway, it's such a ridiculous idea nobody would ever actually make such a thing, right?