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ViewSonic airpanel V150 15" Smart Display
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ASIN: B00007A5K0 Release Date: 2003-01-08 |
Product Description
Versatility should be its middle name. With the ViewSonic airpanel V150 wireless smart display you can easily access information, applications, e-mail, instant messaging, and view or edit photos while sitting at your desk. Or simply pick up the V150 and take all the information on your Windows XP Professional PC anywhere in and around your home. Surf the web from your couch, check the news in bed or balance your budget in the den, wirelessly, with the touch of a stylus. Get the display as versatile as your lifestyle, the ViewSonic airpanel V150.Amazon.com Product Description
Early Adopters Pick: January 2003. The first wireless, touch-screen monitor that uses Microsoft's Smart Display technology, which lets you connect to your Windows XP Pro PC from anywhere in your house.The ViewSonic airpanel V150 is a 15-inch wireless, touch-screen LCD monitor that lets you use your computer from anywhere in your home. Thanks to Microsoft's Smart Display technology, you can remotely access all the data on your Windows XP-based home PC--surf the Web from the couch, check e-mail while lying in bed, download recipes in the kitchen, share digital pictures on the patio--regardless of where your PC is located. And it's truly portable, weighing less than six pounds.
The V150 includes a powerful 400 MHz Intel XScale processor for speed, power savings, and efficiency. The operating system, Microsoft Windows CE for Smart Displays, works much like that of your Windows XP Pro PC, so you'll already feel familiar with its applications. A convenient directional pad and hot buttons make navigation fast and simple. Memory is an ample 64 MB ROM and 128 MB SDRAM. The long-life lithium-ion battery lasts up to five hours.
Colors are vivid and text is crisp, thanks to the bright, full-color transflective display. The 1,024 x 768 resolution keeps your image details clear. You can use the V150 as the primary desktop monitor for your home computing system by adding the optional docking station. Also, charge the battery when the V150 is connected to the dock and attach keyboards or a mouse for added input functionality.
Included in the box are integrated wireless support and an 802.11b airsync USB wireless adapter for your home PC. Although the V150 requires your primary PC to use Windows XP Professional, it comes with a free upgrade for current users of Windows XP Home Edition. --Mike Brown
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the irony of things.......2003-11-02
But after a few hours of usage, the hard-drive's high-pitch hum would start to stick to my head, and doesn't go away. So now I'm considering getting a 4-lb monitor to remotely terminal to my 3-lb notebook.
And gosh, how am I supposed to use this thing without a keyboard and a touchpad?
Introduced prematurely Needs refinement to be successful........2003-07-15
The idea is great, IF, it had met it goals. The package info was misleading, and did not let you know all that was (UN-supported in this release) in other word tough luck.
The touch screen should be pressure sensitive and the battery life [is bad]. It took months to get the battery indicator to even work.
The setup was easy and the connection range is O.K. The unit could also benefit from a good designer who would have reduced the units weight, thickness and generaL bulk, finally it should automatically support landscape and portrate display depending upon units orientation.
It's Smart Display.......2003-06-18
They were designed to solve a single problem some of us who spend hours behind the pc face in our job: "Spend some time with the family!" Sit with your kids on the couch and draw some mickey mouse that can be colored and printed out! Try that with your desktop pc and your crt monitor on the couch. Get a life guys.
So you want to compare the RDP of Terminal Services with Netmeeting or VNC? I thought you said you're a geek? There is nothing to compare, RDP leaves all your other solutions in the dust. Try VNC or NetMeet on a 56K line. Try to watch Video or listen to music with your VNC or NetMeet. Wake up guys.
I have been in this business for quite sometime now. I can tell you for a fact there is nothing to compare with other technologies sending bitmaps and keystrokes on wire.
Smart Display will prove their place in the future. Have you ever been to a meeting where everyone has a laptop and trying to keep a meeting note? Have you ever been to a Elderly Club meeting and trying to take a note; or sitting in the train trying to read all those Microsoft's White Papers?
Notebooks are obtrusive in these cases. I've heard people tell me the staccato of my Ten-finger typing on my notebook is disturbing in the management meeting. Solution is these cases: Tablet PC or a Smart Display. Office 2003 is on its way. Go use OneNote with your VNC/NetMeet and see what I mean.
Lastly, so you wanna read that favorite eBook while lying in bed with your not-so-Digitally-inclined darling of yours? Go ahead, take your notebook/tablet pc to bed with you. Soon you will have a divorce because of constant zooming of the ventilation fans, and sleeplessness of your spouse.
Smart Displays are designed to be less obstrusive, and family friendly. Your wife can now read her mail without having to sit behind your 21" Programmer's CRT. Get a real life guys!
Smart Displays is an emerging technology, so you pay the early adopter's price. Of course price will drop in the future, but then, geeks don't wait till the future. For a real geek, the future is today; now.
Great innovation.......2003-05-25
The Air Panel is a better solution to have powerful processor at the base main computer and portable at the same time.
Giving time, when LCD display gets even cheaper and thinner couple with wireless technology. There will be so much application people can dream up. I can see Doctor use this panel in hospital room instead of the PDA using expanded wireless coverage
I have been thinking install a computer in the car, RV or boat. This panel will make the installation easy. I put the computer in a storage compartment. Mount the display wherever I want.
At this offering from Viewsonic, the 10 inches resolution is too low for today application although the 10 inches size is prefect for automotive application.
I think this wireless everything is the future. Powerful base station (computer) with wireless device attach to it.
Net meeting on a wireless laptop can do exactly that.......2003-04-09
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ViewSonic airpanel V150 - Windows CE for Smart Displays 400 MHz - RAM: 64 MB - ROM: 32 MB 15" TFT ( 1024 x 768 ) - 802.11b
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ASIN: B00008NWAG |
Product Description
Versatility should be its middle name. With the ViewSonic airpanel V150 wireless smart display you can easily access information, applications, e-mail, instant messaging, and view or edit photos while sitting at your desk. Or simply pick up the V150 and take all the information on your Windows XP Professional PC anywhere in and around your home. Surf the web from your couch, check the news in bed or balance your budget in the den, wirelessly, with the touch of a stylus. Get the display as versatile as your lifestyle, the ViewSonic airpanel V150.Electronics: