Wireless for monitors?

[coffejor]

Hey Techwarelabs users;

I was wondering if anyone knew of any wireless adapters for monitors. I'm building a machine for college next year and was hoping to go all wireless but wasn't sure if anything existed for monitors. Let me know if you guys (or girls) know of anything.

Thanks,
Jordan

[Omega]

I don't believe such a thing exists yet, because the bandwidth necessary for high-resolution video is very high.

[Grinnin Reaper]

That's basically what a tablet PC is except it lets you input data and well it is the monitor, their pricey but nice, if that's what you need.

[eviltechie]

actualy tablet PCs are like laptops in a smaller form
since it has processor, ram and all the stuff in it, i wouldnt categorise it as a "wireless monitor"

basically a laptop is best for college and university
tablet PC still bites the bucks
and unless you are rich enough to go to harvard, stanford, cornell or whatever, laptop is ideal

compaq, dell, toshiba, sony, acer... take your pick

[Grinnin Reaper]

I saw a tablet the other day. It looked fairly useless. Unless it was the way this guy had it setup. Whatever you did on the tablet was saw on the pc, they were tied together by everything but wires. It wouldn't even let you use the 2 as independent displays, if it happened on one, it happend on the other. I know some are more functional, but I have yet to see much that one can do that a PDA couldn't, except for size of screen. Seems like a really niche type product to me. Didn't know how expensive they were either.

[eviltechie]

lol

you have to do a bit of research on that then

anyways
viewsonic's tablet pc can hook up to cd-rom and a tiny flexible keyboard

but my fav tablet pc so far is the Fujitsu's
the one omega has
viewsonic's doesnt look very appealing to me...
oh Acer's is awesome too

[Grinnin Reaper]

maybe not as much as you think. Even microsofts website couldn't come up with anything revolutionary it could do. It has handwriting recognision, my pda has that, the nice ones already have a keyboard built in (i think it's the convertible form factor?) descent harddrives and touchscreens. As far as smaller than a laptop it depends on which ones you get. The one I saw had a 18" screen and was nearly 2 and 1/2 inches thick. My dell laptop is significatly smaller. C'mon really, can anyone tell me, other than being able to write on the screen and fold it open like a pen and paper notebook, what are the advantages? At least with a laptop, I'm not stuck with "XP tablet edition" and forced to have XP Pro on the computer to link to. If it's really so "independent" why does my main computer OS need to be XP Pro. If it was really a stand alone computer like a laptop it wouldn't matter. It's a big PDA that thinks it's a laptop. Unless I missed a lot of something.

[eviltechie]

ah i did some research

so there IS something called a wireless monitor
and it isnt a tablet PC

its the ViewSonic's new airpanel V150
http://www.viewsonic.com/products/airpanel_airpanelv150.htm

fast boot time of 3 seconds, Wireless 802.11b
its kind of in between of a tablet and a wireless monitor but catergorized as wireless monitor

ok as for the tablet pc examples
this Acer's gadget is a tablet PC as they call it
but it does have what a small laptop has
almost the same size
dont be fooled by what viewsonic is selling, its different type of tablet pc
here is a link to acer's travelmate C100
http://global.acer.com/products/tablet_pc/tmc100.htm
http://global.acer.com/products/tablet_pc/images/inner_main_tmc100.gif

grinnin, it might help you understand better of that tablet PC is does not largely resemble a pda
perhaps the only similarity is its stylus touch screen monitor
but mainly, that is all

and basically tablet pcs uses Windows XP tablet PC edition
which is winxp + windows journal

not windows CE, pocket PC, palm OS or whatever

so i would say it IS a laptop but a bit more
not for us who arent into that field
mostly for people who needs to do presentation, perhaps computer artists, industrial mobile control panels

you never know
with that added touch screen feature, there are a lot of possibilities