Touch screen help

[ericthemini]

I have bought a secondhand touch screen to build a touchscreen jukebox with, and I was wondering rather than have a heavy and bulky PC power it, could I use a lap top and just plug the touch screen in to it ?
Would it pun the laptop ok?
Could I even loose the laptop screen totally to save space?
Any ideas folks?

[stoofur]

If you have an ipod touch you can actually use that to remotely control itunes. So you could hide your pc somewhere. Then you can see on the itouch what music you have on the pc.

[ChuckFickens]

As I said on your last question about this, yes a laptop would be fine, in fact an atom based netbook would also be fine.

The main issue will be if the touch screen has a serial port connection then you'll need a computer with a serial port (or a usb serial adaptor, but it would have to be a full bi-directional adaptor)

And yes you can take the screen off a laptop and run it on just the touchscreen.

[ericthemini]

Ok thanks guys