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I need a dedicated imagen projecting machine for an art installation I'm planning. Investigating I found that WE CE netbooks are the cheapest mobile machines with powerpoint viewer included around.

My question is: Would this viewer support basic powerpoint features like looping and embedded wav files that sound along the entire presentation?

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I need a dedicated imagen projecting machine for an art installation I'm planning. Investigating I found that WE CE netbooks are the cheapest mobile machines with powerpoint viewer included around.

My question is: Would this viewer support basic powerpoint features like looping and embedded wav files that sound along the entire presentation?

You might be easier off just buying a Intel Atom motherboard, putting a Flash memory drive on it and a low amount of ram and run a linux installation on the flash drive with Open Office to run the PPT presentation or something similar... windows embedded isn't as easy as people might think

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The thing is that, for the museum guys, it woul be easier to handle a netbook. Also it will be a machine that I can use in future projects. How about an android netbook?

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The thing is that, for the museum guys, it woul be easier to handle a netbook. Also it will be a machine that I can use in future projects. How about an android netbook?

Why not just get a normal second hand netboot?

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Why not just get a normal second hand netboot?

Because there's a surprisingly lack of those in the mexican version of ebay and the ones available are up for trading and I dont have what they're asking for :/

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check other sites... also it's better to have windows 7 or xp on a netbook, as windows CE will not run all windows applications.

also try running linux on it as well. I recommend Fedora or Xubuntu with XFCE desktop environment. if you ned windows apps you cna run WINE (windows emulator) or vmware workstation on it and have access to windows apps on linux!

also if you need power on the go and they have vmware hypervisors/cloud computing they can hook you up with a vmware view virtual desktop (if they have that kinda setup) (they would need to install vmware view on the vmware cluster/cloud) and your desktop can be on the cloud. it's really cool! and just about any old system can run vmware view as well. the client barely uses any resources on your system... only resources on the cloud server at the remote location.

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check other sites... also it's better to have windows 7 or xp on a netbook, as windows CE will not run all windows applications.

also try running linux on it as well. I recommend Fedora or Xubuntu with XFCE desktop environment. if you ned windows apps you cna run WINE (windows emulator) or vmware workstation on it and have access to windows apps on linux!

also if you need power on the go and they have vmware hypervisors/cloud computing they can hook you up with a vmware view virtual desktop (if they have that kinda setup) (they would need to install vmware view on the vmware cluster/cloud) and your desktop can be on the cloud. it's really cool! and just about any old system can run vmware view as well. the client barely uses any resources on your system... only resources on the cloud server at the remote location.

Hey man thanks a lot but... you didnt read what I need this system for, right? :p

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Hey man thanks a lot but... you didnt read what I need this system for, right? :p

I assume linux must have some capability with open office to "play" powerpoint files.

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I assume linux must have some capability with open office to "play" powerpoint files.

But can OO play them in a loop and with embeded background sounds?

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