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Where To Find Battery-Powered Monitors?

Posted by timothy on from the wireless-power-har-har dept.

jutus writes "I work for a company which creates medical simulators using off-the-shelf components (including Linux and MacOS X). We're looking for battery powered LCD VGA monitors, but can't seem to find many appealing solutions. This just happens to be one of the rare times when Google has failed me. Does anyone know of a good starting point for such monitors and other industrial PC components?"

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  1. Laptop? by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Any particular reason you don't use a laptop/notebook PC? The whole thing is already battery powered and highly efficient, with an LCD monitor. You admittedly might have problems prototyping connections for high-speed data; I don't know what's available for, say, easy-prototyping USB connections. PCMCIA would probably be even more difficult. If it's lower speed, using the serial or parallel port would be trivial.

    1. Re:Laptop? by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Well, they're looking for a VGA monitor; I assume they're using a computer to drive it. So why not replace both computer and display with a notebook PC?