Re: [misterhouse-users] ViewSonic airpanel, CE & XP (Oversized Audrey?)

[Denis C. <zyl...@bi...>]

Neil

A friend of mine and I had a look at this the other day at the Consumer
Electronics show down here in Sydney.

The way we figured it works is that it does run Windows CE and runs
Microsoft Terminal Services Client.  The Windows XP box that it connects =
to
must be capable of serving its display over Terminal Services (a la remot=
e
help that's already built into it).  The whole thing runs over 802.11b
(including the keyboard if I understand rightly).

However I understand it also has a VGA connector on the back of the monit=
or
base station, which suggests to me that there is a pass-through of VGA
direct to the panel on the Airpanel when it is docked, so that things lik=
e
games & 3d apps that cannot be run over terminal services can be run dire=
ct
over VGA.

Logically if it just runs MSTSC under CE then you should also be able rem=
ote
control Linux machines using VNC (and at a pinch run X apps using an X
server I think there are several).

However the processor in the little Airpanel is very slow, you can see ho=
w
it struggles when you handwrite on the screen - you have to write very ha=
rd
and it takes seconds to just display the handwriting on the screen.  Comp=
are
this with my little Sony Clie which displays handwriting pretty much
instantly on the screen.

It's a pretty great piece of technology, but it's expensive, slow and bul=
ky
IMHO... YMMV of course.

Denis

----- Original Message -----=20
From: "Neil Wrightson" <nwr...@bi...>
To: <mis...@li...>
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 8:11 AM
Subject: [misterhouse-users] ViewSonic airpanel, CE & XP (Oversized Audre=
y?)


Hi,
A local department store is selling a device called a ViewSonic
Airpanel. This is a 15" or 17" TFT touchscreen designed to be carried
around like a large tablet PC.
From what I can understand, it is a windows CE machine that connects
back to a XP box via a WiFi interface and runs explorer or other apps
remotly on the other XP box ie I think it may be terminal services.
From pressing the power up button to running explorer on the XP box
takes 3 seconds.
This would make a great interface to MH, perhaps a bit expensive.

Does anybody know how this works? is it Terminal services or something
similiar that would allow us to use this on a smaller CE box?



Regards,

Neil Wrightson.
Email nwrightson at bigpond dot com




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