I appreciate all of your interests...
The first version of the PCI video card takes over the primary desktop in Windows. It is not possible to have it sit along side of your regular desktop. Although not tested, we believe that Linux will handle this as a virtual desktop but this has not been tested. I have a Linux expert that will get one of my first production cards to test and explore.
The individual displays are just as dynamic as any computer monitor, in fact, they have a 60fps refresh rate, just like a monitor. Think of it this way, if you were to tile 8 small displays, 4 on top and 4 on bottom, you could build a regular monitor out of them.
The touch screens on each of the displays end up emulating a mouse on the PC, so you can put buttons, sliders, HTML links, or anything else you could control with a mouse. Obviously a finger is bigger than a mouse pointer, so the user interface has to take this into consideration, but that is true of any touch display.
The video card itself doesnt care what the CPU/Ram/Processor is....all of that will impact your user interface application. The video card will render it just as fast as a standard video card. As I stated before, we have tested with a DOS boot floppy and small DOS exe graphical program generating test patterns.
Unfortunately, we are not attending EHX in Orlando, as we focus on getting the product out very soon.
The LCD itself is just slightly bigger than a standard single-gang mud ring, so we have had to make our own enclosure. The enclosure right now does not have any sort of mounting mechanism (we just press-fit them into our test lab walls), but we will address that issue, hopefully, before we ship. The wallplate we are using is a standard size single gang blank wallplate that we have had machined for the correct opening size, so it looks very natural. In fact, despite its small size, this has been one of the best complements that we consistently receive (forget the technology, it looks nice on the wall.....lol)
I would also like to note that the first production units will be labeled "evalutation" or "reference design" units and not suitable for resale. This is primarliy for OEM's to purchase and evaluate, but will also be perfect for a community such as this.
I hope I have answered all questions so far....
-Dwayne