14 DAY TRIAL // When the term “all-in-one” crops up in the description of a device, we know immediately that the product can perform more than the standard share of potential operations, and this definitely goes for the Displax Pad.
Edigma would have the world believe that the Displax Pad is a series of touch panels meant to be plugged to computers.
The company would further have the world believe that the screens, with diagonals of 40, 42, 47, 55, and 65 inches, are plug-and-play, meaning that all it takes for them to link to PCs is to stick the (we assume) USB or Thunderbolt port in a computer.
“Displax Pad is a plug and play system, so it comes ready to hang and start enjoying the multitouch experience,” the company says on the product page.
By all accounts, all these claims are true. The newcomers really do provide multitouch support without any fuss.
It's all thanks to the Mac mini computer really, with its 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU and 4 GB RAM. A 500 GB storage device is included too.
It's enough to make us think the item may as well be called a tablet. Then again, tablets don't really come in such large sizes.
Speaking of hardware, the CPU has its own integrated graphics chip (HD 4000), and the AiO touch display even incorporates a pair of 10 W speakers.
As for the display itself, it is a widescreen (16:9) LED-backlit model with Full HD resolution (1920 x 1080 pixels) and LED backlighting. The touch surface is made of completely flat glass.
All the hardware is packed inside an aluminum frame, which makes it both durable (compared to plastic) and light.
Oddly though, the Mac Mini doesn't run OS X, but Windows 8, making us wonder why it is called a Mac at all.