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03-23-2006, 02:25 PM
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Tablet PC for cleanroom equipment monitoring
I am looking at putting a tablet PC into a semiconductor manufacturing cleanroom and mounting it onto a wall. It would be permanently powered by AC and use RS232 to communicate with a piece of equipment. This is a pet project for my work group-definitely not a profit deal.
Anyone have any recommendations/experience with these? What tablets are well received? What about mounting possibilities? Is there a standard for mounting? Appreciate any replies. Best Regards, Brent...... |
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03-23-2006, 03:26 PM
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You may be limited by the fact that less and less notebooks, much less tablets, no longer have any serial ports. They are all going over to USB-only.
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03-23-2006, 03:50 PM
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I have noticed this. I would probably use PC card-RS232 or USB-RS232 converter. Not my first choice, but is the lesser of two evils maybe in this case. That evil being a slow, large, expensive, not well recieved, industrial touchscreen PC.
A tablet PC would be just perfect w/ better performance. The industrials are usually very slow (300-400Mhz), with Win95 OS. Still appreciate any advise on this one. Best Regards, Brent.... |
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03-23-2006, 04:20 PM
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The only tablets I've worked with are Acer and Toshiba convertibles. I'm not impressed with the quality of either, especially the Acer. It's quite fragile.
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03-23-2006, 10:13 PM
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Tablets, IMO, have gone a long way. The newer tablets I use (Toshiba Tecra M4) is a bit flimsy, but not as bad as it was with the older tablets (Toshiba Protege 3500 - bad model). In addition, the Tecra M4 works as a decent simple laptop.
And as something I've noticed - you may not see this as much since you're mounting the tablet, but the special tablet pens get lost quite easily and they are fairly expensive to replace. kram
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03-23-2006, 11:42 PM
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I see Lenovo has a convertible tablet now - if anybody can make a good one, they can. Just saw the ad on TV.
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