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used (eBay), very good condition/battery health, tablet & PSU only £280 UKP (~365 USD).  That was a good deal for a UK based one.

The optional keyboard for it (some have an extra battery) are really expensive though.

I haven’t had the chance to test general battery life, only for my own use case (which is a resource-hungry app that constantly captures from 2 HDMI cards and displays the frames via D3D).  With that it’s good not great, but good enough for what I need.  Can’t give exact figures yet, but I’d say 2-3 hours on that app (TBC).  Lighter use should get you quite a bit more.  Check out the reviews.

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So after a lot of research I settled on a used Dell 7285 2-1 (tablet only).  I haven’t actually got it yet, but what’s great for me is that:

• it’s supposed to be ~490cdm2 (https://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-Latitude-7285-i5-7Y57-256-GB-3K-Convertible-Review.247468.0.html) with an anti-reflective coating that should help outdoors
• a 2880 x 1920 screen that can show two full 1080p images 1:1 in portrait orientation (I shoot 3D with two cameras)
• 2 USB-C with Thunderbolt 3 (handy)
• and has a dual-core CPU that, while not super-fast, is still way faster than Gemini Lake or even Core M3 chips.
• passively cooled (no fans)
•  cheaper 2nd-hand than the laptops/tablets with bright screens (and slower CPUs) you mentioned.
•  and as it’s Dell you can get local spares and support.

The downsides are that although the keyboard for it looks cool, it’s super-expensive (even 2nd hand).  And battery life isn’t that great apparently (although one version of the keyboard has an extra battery on-board).

I’ll let you know how it works out in practice.  Will look to DIY ruggedize it.

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thanks for the pointers guys, seems like the screen brightness of those is in the 450-480nits range, which is quite good.  Has anyone ever seen a brighter screen, eg. an HDR one that actually is brighter?  It’s tricky filming in sunlight (though I could also get a smaller tablet and just build a sunscreen around it.

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Here is the 03 03 2015 X90HD BIOS + the Win10 registry corrections.  Note I haven’t tried these yet, but I’ve translated the file/folder names with Google.

(see my XDA post with full translated update instructions)

Chris, can you add this to your downloads?  Also note that the login link from your main pages doesn’t work (nothing happens, at least on latest Firefox), but it does work if you click it from the ‘Register’ page.

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Strange, when I tried the link before it wanted me to sign up to Baidu (as best I could make out), but today I got through to the file area!  I can’t download large files like the driver archive, they insist you use their cloud software for that which I’m not going to do.  But you can download small files (one at a time, folders or file groups require their cloud dealy).

I’m downloading the BIOS and reg files, will upload somewhere later.

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Did anyone ever find the latest X90HD BIOS?  I think it’s only on Baidu, can anyone with an account please grab it for us?  It’s not available anywhere else:

BIOS link: http://pan.baidu.com/s/1eQdEgmQ

(from http://bbs.teclast.com/thread-402011-1-1.html)

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