Replacing laptop with PDA for Powerpoint presentations at tradeshows?
April 16, 2004 11:19 AM Subscribe
Replacing laptop with PDA for Powerpoint presentations at tradeshows? --more inside--
My employer participates in several tradeshows a year in Europe and in North-America. Currently we usually fedex all kinds of crap to the location beforehand and then fedex it back.
I've been trying to cut down the amount of stuff and would like to find a replacement for the laptop that we currently ship/ take with us to just run a constant loop of Powerpoint slideshows at the booth.
It would be ideal to have PDA type of device with necessary sofware that can run Powerpoint slideshows containing lots of multimedia elements (music, animated graphics, etc.) and display it on monitor.
Google found company called Margi and their Presenter-to-Go package, but that says that it compresses the Powerpoint files, which makes me wonder whether it works with very rich presentations.
What configuration would you recommend?
My employer participates in several tradeshows a year in Europe and in North-America. Currently we usually fedex all kinds of crap to the location beforehand and then fedex it back.
I've been trying to cut down the amount of stuff and would like to find a replacement for the laptop that we currently ship/ take with us to just run a constant loop of Powerpoint slideshows at the booth.
It would be ideal to have PDA type of device with necessary sofware that can run Powerpoint slideshows containing lots of multimedia elements (music, animated graphics, etc.) and display it on monitor.
Google found company called Margi and their Presenter-to-Go package, but that says that it compresses the Powerpoint files, which makes me wonder whether it works with very rich presentations.
What configuration would you recommend?
If you can run Opera on the PDA, you can use OperaShow mode, which is basically PowerPoint using HTML.
posted by five fresh fish at 10:49 PM on April 16, 2004
posted by five fresh fish at 10:49 PM on April 16, 2004
There's a nice review of doing just this at Medical Pocket PC and you may also want to check out Margi
posted by Stoatfarm at 11:53 AM on April 18, 2004
posted by Stoatfarm at 11:53 AM on April 18, 2004
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posted by loquax at 4:31 PM on April 16, 2004