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Old 12-05-2014, 04:29 PM   #20
Nate the great
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Originally Posted by rem736 View Post
the new specs don't bother me so much as long as you can still side-load pdfs and epubs. lack of a front light is a bummer but i would still get it. i think the decision to make it non-touch makes sense since it's meant for use in the field at the construction site. the site would be dusty and the device would easily get dirty. i would imagine that they would design it to be easily cleaned. so adding touch capabilities only adds another point of failure. i can work with this.
I ran this by a construction engineer and she said that a 13" screen wasn't big enough for blueprints. One would need to scroll around a blueprint in order to see it, and also zoom in and out. That's going to be a lot harder to do without the touchscreen.
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