[ale] Pad or Netbook w/Touch Recommendation.

[Boris Borisov]

If size does not matters!

Yesterday I saw in local Target 11.6 inch netbook new for $168 i think ...
no touch screen

A few week ago but I cannot recall store Asus or Acer  ... with touch
screen for $239. same size screen.

Hardware is getting cheep ...

My experience with windows8 is only to boot live Cd Linux. Never install
one on hard drive . But you simply switch option from BIOS ... ooops is not
BIOS anymore is it :)

On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Ted W. <ted-lists at xy0.org> wrote:

> On 11/27/2014 09:05 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
>> Check some of the low cost touchscreen laptops. Win8 can be replaced :-)
>>
>> On November 26, 2014 11:55:04 PM EST, Aaron Ruscetta <arxaaron at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey strangers! :-)
>>>
>>> I've been tasked with procuring a touch pad or netbook with touch
>>> screen
>>> for use in the library at Atlanta Friends Meeting. It will essentially
>>> be a
>>> dedicated web browser to access our library catalog, which we intend
>>> to keep on an internet service called Library Thing.
>>>
>>> An iPad has been suggested but I would love to avoid spending anything
>>> on a a dead end Apple device, let alone way more money than we need
>>> to for the purpose.
>>>
>>> Only other important aspects are a couple of standard USB ports for
>>> connecting a CueCat bar code scanner and/or keyboard / mouse and
>>> a security attachment slot (eg Kensington lock).
>>>
>>> Would like to keep the whole thing under $300, including the
>>> security gadget.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for input!
>>>
>>> in peace,
>>> aaron
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> My only concern is your desired budget. Can you get anything with a touch
> screen besides a low end, Chinese no-brand, Android tablet for that? And
> even then, some of those can't act as a USB host device so it would
> complicate attaching your scanner unnecessarily. You say laptop but what
> about an LCD and a NUC (or something similarly small) mounted to the VESA
> mount on the back of the screen? Doing a quick search on Newegg, it looks
> like you can get a basic Intel i3 NUC with 1-2GB of RAM for a bit under
> $300. Combine that with an Acer FT200HQLbmjj 20" touchscreen ($120 on
> newegg ATM) and you'd have a nice kiosk machine for < $500. If that is too
> far over budget, I would still stick with the VESA mounted computer but
> maybe drop to a less expensive ARM boards. The RaspberryPi probably doesn't
> have enough power to do what you're looking for but something like the
> BeagleBone Black, Banana Pi or HummingBoard might be a little more
> acceptable and would keep the computer portion under $100.
>
> Be sure to update us with whatever you end up with. I'd be curious to hear
> what works for this sort of application.
>
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