The year of the Linux tablet? [LWN.net]

The year of the Linux tablet?

Posted Aug 24, 2011 12:02 UTC (Wed) by epa (subscriber, #39769)
In reply to: The year of the Linux tablet? by anselm
Parent article: The year of the Linux tablet?

I wonder if you can get a tiny PC and glue it to the back of a monitor? Then run them both off the same 16 volt power supply or battery pack?

Some laptops are convertible to tablet format, although they would be too heavy for a music stand.

The year of the Linux tablet?

Posted Aug 24, 2011 17:01 UTC (Wed) by zlynx (guest, #2285) [Link]

A lot of the mini-PCs based on netbook technology (like Ion-2) are designed to be fastened directly to the back of any VESA compliant monitor.

The combination makes for a really slick all-in-one machine. It is a bit tricky to find LCD monitors built with touchscreen included but they do exist.

However, adding a battery backup that could run a thing like that for more than 20 minutes would be quite heavy and painful to haul around.