Cheap laptops; a question.

I want a cheap laptop as de-facto e-reader. With a large colour
screen. I will load up Acrobat and convert all other formats to pdf.

My question is: is there any laptop that can have the screen folded
right back - with the screen exposed - to lie against the keyboard
back to back? Sometimes I want to read in bed.

Peter

Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> wrote in news:n9qeo7hgnvvllk12cac3311leng1doml4o@4ax.com:

> I want a cheap laptop as de-facto e-reader. With a large colour
> screen. I will load up Acrobat and convert all other formats to pdf.
>
> My question is: is there any laptop that can have the screen folded
> right back - with the screen exposed - to lie against the keyboard
> back to back? Sometimes I want to read in bed.

I think anything that is considered a "tablet PC" has that qualification.
I have an HP Compaq tc4200 with Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. It comes with
a stylus so you can "write" on the screen. I never caught on to that part
very well so I just use it as a regular laptop except when I'm showing
it off.

http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCateg...ame=Tablet-PCs

Then there's the iPads, of course.

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Peter Jason wrote:
> I want a cheap laptop as de-facto e-reader. With a large colour
> screen. I will load up Acrobat and convert all other formats to pdf.
>
> My question is: is there any laptop that can have the screen folded
> right back - with the screen exposed - to lie against the keyboard
> back to back? Sometimes I want to read in bed.
>
> Peter
>
>
>

This concept consists of a 10.1" tablet plus a "keyboard docking station".
When you want a keyboard, you seat the tablet into the dock. About $700 total.

http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Transform...4280456&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com/Asus-Transform...bxgy_pc_text_b

I saw another one, with a hinge on it as you described. I think
this is the older model. This one is based on an Atom processor.
The other one, might have been ARM based, which means you'll have
to check out the OS situation. So the first one is "Android OS".
The following one is Windows 7 (on a 1.33GHz single core atom).

http://www.amazon.com/Asus-T91MT-PU1...4280836&sr=8-1

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...oL._AA300_.jpg

You're very much at the mercy of the latest whim in portable
devices. If "all the cool kids" say a tablet is what you need,
then that's all you'll find for sale. Or go back to a traditional
laptop (or ultrabook, of which a new wave will be coming out soon).

Paul

"Peter Jason" <pj@jostle.com> wrote in message
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>I want a cheap laptop as de-facto e-reader. With a large colour
> screen.

You will have to make your own table of screen sizes and define
the minimum that meets your needs (possibly 1000 x 700 approx.)
You may find suitable ones are not cheap (except second hand.)

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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa Canada)

On 04/12/2012 06:51 PM, Peter Jason wrote:
> I want a cheap laptop as de-facto e-reader. With a large colour
> screen. I will load up Acrobat and convert all other formats to pdf.
>
> My question is: is there any laptop that can have the screen folded
> right back - with the screen exposed - to lie against the keyboard
> back to back? Sometimes I want to read in bed.
>
> Peter
>
>
>



I have a Lenovo that can do that

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