Features:
- Smart Display wireless technology, touch-screen with stylus
- Access your PC's data and applications from anywhere in your home
- 800 x 600 resolution, long 5-hour battery life
- Includes 802.11b USB wireless adapter for your PC
- Free upgrade to Windows XP Professional
Description:
Take your PC with you, around the house or throughout your office, and work wherever you want, with the ViewSonic airpanel V110. This wireless monitor lets you check your email or surf the Web remotely from your Windows XP Pro-based PC (free upgrade to Windows XP Profession Edition and free USB wireless adapter and cable are included). Don't think of the airpanel as a computer; it's a wireless accessory for your existing PC that you can write on and that provides access to all your files, applications, and settings. The design is chunky but easy to hold, with rounded corners and a clear, bright screen. Two USB ports on the top accept a mouse and keyboard, but since the airpanel is a touch screen, you probably won't need them. In our tests of the airpanel, we found that the stylus was small but had a nice balance. The four-way cursor control was a little slow, but at least we didn't jostle the cursor accidentally; and the left and right mouse buttons were useful with the pen too. For text entry, we typed and wrote into an input panel. We tapped and dragged onscreen to control Windows itself; in fact, we could see our PC's desktop on the airpanel as if we were sitting in front of the PC screen, but without desktop wallpaper. The 10.4-inch screen looked small initially, but when we held it in our hands or rested it on our lap, it didn't feel cramped; and it was small and light enough to carry easily from room to room. Without the usual PC components like a hard drive, CD-ROM, and so on, the Airpanel didn't get too warm to hold either. Overall, the airpanel V110 is pricier than a normal PC monitor, but being untied from a desk is a great benefit. Mary Branscombe, Amazon.co.uk
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