Lab tool interfaces

[Nathan McCorkle]

$59 (plus $6 shipping) this quad-core tablet with 1280x800 IPS screen
and full-size USB 2.0 port, along with micro USB for charging (both
work simultaneously) along with an HDMI port too (micro I think)

http://www.microcenter.com/product/439773/TW70CA17_Tablet_-_Black

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[Brian Degger]

Is a Windows 8.1 tablet....sometimes there are driver issues with usb devices.
Usb Webcam support would be good if it works.

[Alex]

This seems like a great deal. Am I missing something? Lol

Alex

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[Nathan McCorkle]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Brian Degger <brian....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is a Windows 8.1 tablet....sometimes there are driver issues with usb
> devices.

Hmm, didn't know that. I've got Windows 8.1 on my laptop and haven't
had any driver issues with webcams or USB-to-serial adapters... it
might help that this tablet has an Intel processor, so I think most
drivers/software should work as they would on a laptop (as opposed to
the ARM-based processors that have a special version of Windows,
labelled 'RT')

[Nathan McCorkle]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Alex <spid...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This seems like a great deal. Am I missing something? Lol

All I can think is economies-of-scale are just getting to this point.
I do wonder if Microsoft is subsidizing or something, in effort to get
people to be 'OK' with non-android tablets or something like that. A
new IPS screen for my cell-phone is around $50 on ebay... so this
screen has a bit fewer pixels, and they're larger (easier) to make.
The processor itself is more than a year old, and listed at $17.00...
so throw in RAM, SSD, motherboard, and plastic case (and don't forget
the connectors)... and it seems like they're maybe over-stock
surplus... or they're a gimmick to get Intel and Microsoft as a tablet
into the general consumer mind-frame. Or we're just really getting
good at manufacturing.

Makes custom-microfabbed microfluidics a hard-sell IMO... at least for
simple stuff (in terms of engineering micro/nano components per $).

[d wright]

I heard Leo Laporte, the tech guy, review it yesterday on his show and he loved it. You get office 365 for a year for free too.

http://techguylabs.com/episodes/1164/leo-impressed-winbook-tw700-tablet

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[Cathal Garvey]

Far more excited about the possibilities for Black Swift:
http://black-swift.com/

~$25, wifi-enabled SOC with 1 micro-USB-host and powered by another
micro-USB in, full GPIO. Wifi can (and by default does) act in AP mode.
Runs OpenWRT.

Basically it's perfect out of the box for presenting a web interface to
either an arbitrary IO (GPIO) or USB-enabled device.

Best of all? It's not Windows or Mac! ;)
/trolololo

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[John Griessen]

On 02/23/2015 01:00 PM, Nathan McCorkle wrote:
> Or we're just really getting
> good at manufacturing.

MS always does things at a scale so large it gets big price cuts and
lots of fine tuning of costs to fab are done.


On 02/23/2015 01:12 PM, d wright wrote:> You get office 365 for a year for free too.


And see -- that's no subsidy, it's a future income for M$.

Far more excited about the possibilities for Black Swift: http://black-swift.com/

+1 (but then I was already in on that, so how can I +1? :>}