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In addition to the problem of flying heads on hard disks at high altitude, there may also be a thermal problem with cooling some part of the tablet PC as cooling takes a hit with high altitude. Another more unlikely problem could be arc-over during the backlight start. If the tablet uses cold cathode -- as opposed to LED -- back-lighting, some fairly high voltages are necessary to strike the tubes and this might also be a consideration.
Charles Patton
John Schroeder wrote:
Sporty's tablet PC has a limitation that may not work for a lot of us. It has an operating altitude limitation of 10,000 ft. I suspect that it is associated with the hard drives and their head clearances, and also with turbulence. Any solid state storage devices with 3 to 5 gigs of space out there?
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