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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lindows tablets? by burns210 · 2002-11-23 19:57 · Score: 5, Informative

This site sells tablets for "sub $1000." While Lindows claims they will be selling that same tablet for "around $500."
Re:Cost by Skyfire · 2002-11-23 20:39 · Score: 5, Informative

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

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