<div dir="ltr"><div><div>If size does not matters!<br><br></div>Yesterday I saw in local Target 11.6 inch netbook new for $168 i think ... no touch screen <br><br></div>A few week ago but I cannot recall store Asus or Acer ... with touch screen for $239. same size screen.<br><br><div><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">Hardware is getting cheep ...<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">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 :)<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br>On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Ted W. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ted-lists@xy0.org" target="_blank">ted-lists@xy0.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 11/27/2014 09:05 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
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Check some of the low cost touchscreen laptops. Win8 can be replaced :-)<br>
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On November 26, 2014 11:55:04 PM EST, Aaron Ruscetta <<a href="mailto:arxaaron@gmail.com" target="_blank">arxaaron@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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Hey strangers! :-)<br>
<br>
I've been tasked with procuring a touch pad or netbook with touch<br>
screen<br>
for use in the library at Atlanta Friends Meeting. It will essentially<br>
be a<br>
dedicated web browser to access our library catalog, which we intend<br>
to keep on an internet service called Library Thing.<br>
<br>
An iPad has been suggested but I would love to avoid spending anything<br>
on a a dead end Apple device, let alone way more money than we need<br>
to for the purpose.<br>
<br>
Only other important aspects are a couple of standard USB ports for<br>
connecting a CueCat bar code scanner and/or keyboard / mouse and<br>
a security attachment slot (eg Kensington lock).<br>
<br>
Would like to keep the whole thing under $300, including the<br>
security gadget.<br>
<br>
Thanks in advance for input!<br>
<br>
in peace,<br>
aaron<br></span>
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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.<br>
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Be sure to update us with whatever you end up with. I'd be curious to hear what works for this sort of application.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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