Thread: Comparing Motion LS800 Tablet PC to again Lilliput 8"

Originally Posted by GizmoQ

Far be it for me to try to talk you out of buying a TabletPC, but wait a while and do a little more research. There are several dual input (passive/active) tablets coming to market that also have decent screens, but I don't know of their dock capabilities.

There are? Got any links?

Motion does a 1600 with dual input but the one I saw has a worse than average screen for daylight readability, let alone sunlight readability. The screen was completely different to the View Anywhere and the non-View Anywhere models and worse than both even indoors. But it was touch. If they ever produce an LS800 with View Anywhere and dual input, I would be so there... Well, I can dream. I have a suspicion View Anywhere and Motion's dual input are not compatible technologies.

Originally Posted by DaveNagy

Thanks for the reference to W3bMa5t3r's controller. I'll go read up on that...

I'm googally and mp3car'lly impaired and am failing to find anything other than the reference in this thread. Where is it .

Ah, that approach. I really don't want to do that since I want the clean look and the ability to remove the tablet and take it inside. It's a good point about the microphone jack but I still want a clean look with the ability to simply put it into the dock.

I'm thinking it should be possible to build a USB device that can wake windows up since USB devices can do that. But I'm not remotely capable of doing it myself . For e.g. you can have a mouse or keyboard trigger the machine to resume from standby or hibernate so I guess you could hack a $10 usb mouse to become an on switch without too much risk of frying your computer through the USB port . Maybe I could manage that one. That implies the USB port is on even when the machine is in hibernate though which might drain the LS800's battery too fast.

Speaking of which, I did some tests yesterday and the battery only lasts somewhere between 8 and 13 hours in standby sitting in the dock. So instant resume in the morning to go to work might not be possible but instant on when returning from work should work. I'll repeat the test at some point to try and get a more accurate max standby time before the battery is critically low.

This is one of the features of their 1st bios update (they've onto the 3rd update now):

Enable S5 Wake capability for Marvell GigaLan (Enable LAN wake capability in device manager. To wake system from S5 – Device manager > Double Tap on “Marvell Yukon... > tap on Advanced > select “Wake From Shutdown” > set value to “ON”. AC must be plugged-in

I wonder if you can use a loopback interface to cause the system to wake because if thinks a LAN is connected. If that only triggers when AC is plugged in, you'd be home free in one go. I was reading a thread the other day about people succeeding at doing this with certain desktop PCs with wake on lan functionality that just required a physical connection and not the magic packet.

Wake On Link is what I meant BTW.

Here's the thread where I found out about it (previously I'd only heard of Wake On Lan which is of no use for a car PC):
Remote laptop startup

And google pointed me back at mp3car.com for the loopback wiring answer:
Power On laptop at start
I will try to give that a go tomorrow.