Building Your Own Tablet PC?

Posted by Cliff on Saturday November 23, 2002 @06:07PM from the if-you-want-something-done-and-its-gotta-be-cheap dept.

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."

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Am I the only one thinking... by HaloZero · 2002-11-23 20:30 · Score: 0, Offtopic

...that these things are basically oversized PDAs? I mean, yeah, they can do more, but..... so what? Don't get me wrong, I'd love to play around and see what it's capable of... but there's a point of diminishing returns. I can't seriously come up with a viable time when I'd like to lug something like this around, risking damaging it all the while.

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