Advantech Launches 15'' LCD Touch-Screen Panel PC for Custom Applications; ``First with 15''.IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 4, 1999-- Advantech Technologies, Inc. has announced its PPC-150T, which is thought to be the industry's first 15" Panel PC. The new unit's major advantages include: -- 15" 1024 x 768 color LCD touch-screen -- Unique two-module construction for easy LCD upgrading -- 14" panel PC pricing The PPC-150T is an upgrade from Advantech's PPC-140T which last year was named "Best Hardware System" at Comdex Asia. The new product includes all the features of its smaller sibling plus larger size, a touch screen using Surface Acoustic Wave A surface acoustic wave (SAW) is an acoustic wave traveling along the surface of a material having some elasticity, with an amplitude that typically decays exponentially with the depth of the substrate. (SAW) or analog resistive technology, and a more modular design to make in-field swapping of screens easier. The on-board Pentium MMX processor is backed by a 24X CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). , floppy drive, hard disk, 512KB flash PROM, a parallel port, four serial ports, audio in/out, VGA (Video Graphics Array) The display standard for the PC. All PC display adapters support VGA, and Windows machines boot up in "VGA mode" before switching to higher resolutions. , MIDI/Game, and USB ports, plus 10/100BASE-T Ethernet. Expansion slots are provided for additional USB ports or a PCI/ISA card - and it all comes Internet-ready. The PPC-150T's industrial-grade construction leads to a 50,000 hour MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) The average time a component works without failure. It is the number of failures divided by the hours under observation. MTBF - Mean Time Between Failures for the basic system and 20,000 hours for the 200-candlepower display backlight back·light n. A type of spotlight, used in photography, that illuminates a subject from behind. tr.v. back·light·ed or back·lit , back·light·ing, back·lights . Perhaps best of all, a PPC-150T with touch screen, floppy, hard drive, CD, 64MB and Windows 98 is being offered at the price of the PPC-140T, $3,395. The system is expected to be used for information terminals, unattended kiosks, and point of transaction applications. About Advantech Advantech Technologies, Inc. is a multinational PC automation company. headquartered in Irvine, Calif. A subsidiary of Advantech America, Corp., Sunnyvale, Calif., the company is a part of Advantech Co., Ltd., which has operations in the U.S., Taiwan, Germany, Italy, Benelux, Hungary, Japan, China and Singapore. Advantech Technologies offers embedded PCs and Panel PCs which are manufactured under ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001 and ISO 14000-certified processes. For more information about the company, its Panel PCs, or embedded computer products, Advantech can be contacted at 15375 Barranca bar·ran·ca also bar·ran·co n. pl. bar·ran·cas also bar·ran·cos Southwestern U.S. 1. A deep ravine or gorge. 2. A bluff. Parkway, Irvine, California 92618, 949/789-7178, fax 949/789-7179, or at its website www.advantech.com. Pentium is a registered trademark of Intel Corp. Windows 98 is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. Any other tradenames used are the property of their holders. |
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