Experience with convertible laptop?

Looking to control video and audio out wireless. Was wondering if anyone had any experience with the "new" convertible laptops. The screen can be removed from the base and used as a touch screen. I am finding no information as to whether the screen is able to communicate with the base once disconnected. I already have the DL 1608 board that allows control of a mixing console via iPad without wires. If I could free up the windows software control end, I would be able to run everything remotely.

ex. If I run audio from the the laptop to a board and am using a program such as virtual DJ or PCDJ to play the file, and then disconnect the screen from the convertible laptop, will the music continue to play and can I still control the audio output and song selection from the touchscreen.

Any productive advice is greatly appreciated.

Nope. None of them do that. Its more of a base station with a battery, a keyboard, and some ports. All the "real" parts are in the screen. You would need a client/server type thing to do what you want to do.

What you should look at is a two-computer system. One of those is a tablet that can use a VNC client to view & control the other, which would be a run-off-the-mill laptop running your audio/video playback. With that tablet you can see the screen of the playback computer and control it. When I was in college we would use a laptop with VNC to control the Q-Lab audio playback desktop that was up in the booth. This way we could control audio playback from the tech table in the house but the computer itself was still up next to the sound console and firewire sound card therefore the 8 to 12 channels of audio inputs that we ran every show.

The only issue is that free VNC clients particularly tend to have a bit of lag

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No matter the application, Do NOT get any laptops that separate from the base.. The tech is too new and the connectors strip real easy. If you need a mobile windows tablet, get the surface 2 on sale or just go for buying Logmein for your vnc needs(tho there are p2p lan solutions i think, but I dont know of any off hand..)

We've got a Dell XPS 2-in-1 kicking around the office that's destined to act as a control surface for DSP control panels in a job we've got coming up. It's been good enough to us in our initial testing that we're talking about buying a couple for our guys in the field who need access to construction document PDF's and Excel sheets while on job sites. Not a detachable base, so much as the screen flips around into a tablet orientation and obscures the keyboard when you don't want to see the keyboard.

If you wanted to go this route, you wouldn't be able to walk around freely as you'd still need an audio cord tied into the laptop, but you'd be able to use it as a tablet when you want to, and as a laptop when you want to.