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From: xTenn on 25 Mar 2008 09:13

<KnuckleHead(a)BadISP.gov> wrote in message
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>
> Then it occurred to me that a tablet is almost 8.5 * 11... oh but the
> price is astronomical... then again I don't need a fast modern machine
> and there are used tablets available for about the price of a new Sony
> reader. So will this work for my intended application? Bear in mind
> that I've never touched a laptop (strange eh?) let alone a tablet. I
> presume the tablet OS is something like Win2K (which I use on my
> desktop) or its deformed son, XP? I presume I can transfer a pdf from
> the desktop via either a USB port or a CD? I presume I can run it on
> 110V and ignore the batteries? I presume the same Adobe reader runs on
> the tablet? I presume the tablet OS has Notepad (for reading the text
> files)? IOW a cheapo old one would be like a (say) 486? Oh, and can I
> turn the image around so it looks like a page of a book?
>
> What say you?
>


I say hit ebay and look for this tablet - "TC1100". It is about the size of
a sheet of paper. Disconnect the keyboard( making it a true slate), install
Adobe 8 on it, and view your PDFs full screen mode (it works very well). As
a portable library with a lot of additional functionality it will be hard to
beat. Not to mention it is color, something that e-paper has not quite
gotten yet. By the time the used tablet gives out ( a few years) you can
re-visit that market.

On top of that the tablet itself, with journal allowing for writing, may fit
your needs better than you realize. Of course you can use wireless with the
tablet as you would a standard computer, bypassing the need to sync with
another desktop (or pulling it off from the desktop hard drive via network
share).


For more info check out wikipedia on ths tablet:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TC1100


(By looking at the wikipedia article it might be cool to note how many
movies and tv shows it has shown up - it just looks cool and fits in your
hands well as a slate. The price on this model should be down in the area
that you are looking now.)

..02, FWIW.



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