Building Your Own Tablet PC?

GuNgA-DiN asks: "I would like to develop a prototype system for the Educational market using tablet PC's. I need to buy a few tablet PC's (with docking stations) and built-in wireless capability. Does anyone know where I could buy a barebones tablet PC kit? I don't want to spend $2,300 on one just to test out my idea. There are plenty of options available for end-users with pre-installed operating systems (read: WindowsXP Tablet edition). However, these are very expensive and will never make it to the low-cost Educational market. I need a barebones, build-it-yourself developer's kit that I can use to experiment with."

Comments

lindows tablets?

[burns210]

This site sells tablets for "sub $1000." While Lindows claims they will be selling that same tablet for "around $500."

Re:Cost

[Skyfire]

First of all, laptop kit:
http://www.ecs.com.tw/products/ibuddiexp.htm

Second of all, cheap tablet:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/13/203524 7&mode=nested&tid=137

here's the actual tablet:
http://www.stepupcomputing.com/products.asp

Re:Tablet PC's

[emag]

It seems from a quick perusal of that page, that at the very least, the majority of the "tablets" listed are not, in fact "Tablet PCs", but are a beast that most people haven't really ever heard of called "digitizer tablets". Usually, graphic artists and other artsy geeks (notably, not me since I lack any kind of artistic talent) have these things because it's a more "natural" interface than a mouse for drawing and the like on PCs. Unfortunately, most (all?) don't actually have a display component, or any stand-alone processing capabilities at all.

It also seemed like a lot of links on the page were dead, or it was for *really* obsolete hardware.