Question about a particular all-in-one touchscreen monitor

[Shortbus]

I'm interested in building something with a touchscreen, possibly a jukebox.

anyone know anything about '1 PIONEER ALL-IN-ONE XV 15" TOUCH SCREEN MONITOR '

It appears to have a PC built in, can that be of use? Don't want to waste my $$, but it's cheap and available right now.

Help if you can.

Thank you!

[BobA]

Looks like a very current TS with computer built in if this is the same model.

From the Pioneer Magnus Website

Magnus Touch XV Series
The XV is the most powerful and versatile 15" touchcomputer in the market. It is powered by Intel's Pentium Dual Core or Core 2 Duo, and has a blazing Intel 10/100/1000 BaseT network built-in with vPro technology for remote management. The XV will be ready when your business grows and has more data to process, offering a better return on your investment.

The XV's built-in RAID-1 option allows automatic hard drive mirroring thus providing data redundancy and protection. By using 2 hard drives, your data will be continuously duplicated onto the second drive. If one drive fails, the XV will automatically run from the second drive, thus reducing down time. Plug in a replacement drive, and the XV will re-build the new drive by itself.

If you have only one terminal setup to manage a store, an XV with RAID-1 is an ideal solution to run both as your Workstation and Back Office Server. It will handle your daily transactions with speed, and at the same time it will provide data redundancy. In a multiple terminal setup, you can deploy several standard XV workstations, and one XV configured with RAID-1 as both the Server and Workstation, eliminating the need of a dedicated PC server.

Expandabilties include 4 Serials, Parallel, 6 USB, 24-volt poweredUSB, CD/DVD drive, media reader.

Ideal for retail/restaurant point-of-sale, industrial control, gaming, point-of-purchase, information kiosk, and healthcare applicationsXV offers built-in RAID-1 for data redundancy . By using 2 hard drives, data will be continuously mirrored onto the second drive. If one drive fails, the XV will automatically run from the second drive, thus reducing down time. Plug in a replacement drive, and XV will re-build the new drive by itself.

Touchscreen    USB: Resistive, Infra Red, or Intellitouch
Display    15" Active matrix TFT
Processor    Celeron 2GHz, P4 2GHz, or P4 3GHz, with Heatpipe cooling
Memory    256MB, upto 2GB
Hard Drive    IDEx2, 20GB+ (RAID-1 optional)
O/S    Win2000, XP Prof, WePOS
Power Supply    External, 250W, 100-220V auto select
Listings    FCC, CE, UL
Add-ons    Card Reader, Modem, RF, Customer Display
Ports    4 x Serial, RJ45 10/100/1G BaseT
1 x Parallel, DB25 2 x Cashdrawer
3 x USB Standard 1 x PS/2
2 x poweredUSB +12V 1 x Spkr Out
1 x poweredUSB +24V 1 x external VGA