Re: Multimedia

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I have 2 of them, one used several times per day for whole-house audio.

My wife actually put a ballpoint pen on top as it allowed me to design
smaller buttons and her to more accurately hit them rather than a
fingernail. I haven't taken the stylus out of the socket in months, then
again it's just this cheapo crappy plastic thingey (i think)

Hence:
>
> Someone who actually has a Fujitsu 3400 might clarify:
>
> 1) what functions are on the electronic pen.
Again, I *think* it's not an electronic pen supplied with it. Looks like a
cheap piece of plastic crap.

> 2) whether XP-SP2 (tablet version and non-tablet version) can be installed
> without breaking the touchscreen driver (XP makes RDP available).
I have XP-Pro on one of them but I never installed the handwriting driver
cuz I use it with CQC so I don't need it. Hence, I don't actually know.

> 3) whether there is a useable screen mouse so that one can actually use
> the touch screen without the pen.
Not sure what you mean by this.

> 4) full-screen, full-motion video performance.
I've never tried it, I know there's a post somewhere on the CQC forums
(www.charmedquark.com) from someone who tried it. He was able to do DVDs,
but the PQ wasn't that good.

>
> In general,  the Fujitsu 3400's sound like a spectacular deal but I'd want
> to know  about how well the resistive touch screens hold up on
> (especially) the used/surplus  stuff that is available. In my experience,
> a touch screen that is intermittent or has bad spots is as frustrating as
> an X10 switch that doesn't switch. Typical LCD touch screens are at least
> easy to permanently 'fix' with one hard rap with the knuckles -- a 'fix'
> that just gets you bruised on a CRT-based touch screen ;-)
>
> (I'm personally holding the line that new devices need to be 1)
> RDP-enabled and 2) provide acceptable full-screen, full-motion video. I've
> had IBM industrial 10" 800x600 LCD touch screen Pentium-based PC's ( like
> the 3400) running HA stuff for about 6 years. The ~4X speed increase of
> the Fujitsu compared to what I have isn't a large enough boost to warrant
> the upgrade and the IBM cases are more compact and less ugly than that of
> the 3400. )
>
> ... Marc
> Marc_F_Hult
> www.ECOntrol.org