I am considering the purchase of four of these for use as in-vehicle entertainment devices. Think of the video screens in the back of the airline seat in front of you (on some planes) and you'll get the idea. To make this work as I would like, I would need to come up with solutions as follows:
* Some way to mount/hold the tablet to the two headrest posts of the seat in front. Several clamps (for iPad) that would be acceptable are shown here;
* Some way to connect the tablet to an in-vehicle file-server. Although I could install a wifi access point / router / fileserver, I'd prefer to do this by means of a wired network link instead of wifi. With up to four people watching four different movies, that's a lot to stream by wifi. Does anyone make a wired ethernet network adapter for this?
Alternatively, with 1 tb and 1.5 tb 2.5" usb drives costing so little, I suppose I could just put my video library on one drive per tablet
Any comments? Suggestions? Alternate ideas?
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Re: ThinkPad Tablet AS IN-VEHICLE ENTERTAINMENT DEVICE
interesting project..
i saw a vehicle mount for the ThinkPad android tablet, someplace.. probably amazon..
let us know how it proceeds..
i saw a vehicle mount for the ThinkPad android tablet, someplace.. probably amazon..
let us know how it proceeds..
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