W510 with touchscreen as Point Of Sale station POS
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 12:14 pm
This is just meant to be informational:
Our business has a visitor's center with a few Posiflex all-in-one POS stations. Even though the systems & touch displays are integrated, these terminals are still far from portable. Several times a year, we need to set up a station in another building or a picnic area, so the idea of building a new POS station around a notebook with a touch display generated a lot of interest. The first thing I found is that the availability of touchscreens in a particular model can be short lived. Several manufactures offered the displays for a time, then discontinued them. This includes Lenovo, which had offered the Multi Touch screen on the T series for a while, but not anymore. I can understand why such a feature may not be especially popular, but it's useful on a POS system. Turns out the W series still has it as a CTO option, and it was free during a January promotion. This is a very nice machine, and while it adds to the portability of the station, there are still the peripherals: cash drawer, printer, barcode scanner, magnetic stripe reader and the pole (customer) display. The cash drawer is particularly bulky & heavy, but everything can fit into a good-sized plastic tub for transport. We probably will not soon replace all the existing terminals with this notebook configuration, but it will be interesting to see how this new system works out during our summer events.
Jim
Our business has a visitor's center with a few Posiflex all-in-one POS stations. Even though the systems & touch displays are integrated, these terminals are still far from portable. Several times a year, we need to set up a station in another building or a picnic area, so the idea of building a new POS station around a notebook with a touch display generated a lot of interest. The first thing I found is that the availability of touchscreens in a particular model can be short lived. Several manufactures offered the displays for a time, then discontinued them. This includes Lenovo, which had offered the Multi Touch screen on the T series for a while, but not anymore. I can understand why such a feature may not be especially popular, but it's useful on a POS system. Turns out the W series still has it as a CTO option, and it was free during a January promotion. This is a very nice machine, and while it adds to the portability of the station, there are still the peripherals: cash drawer, printer, barcode scanner, magnetic stripe reader and the pole (customer) display. The cash drawer is particularly bulky & heavy, but everything can fit into a good-sized plastic tub for transport. We probably will not soon replace all the existing terminals with this notebook configuration, but it will be interesting to see how this new system works out during our summer events.
Jim
