Posted by Luke browne on October 30, 2012, 8:28 pm
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Unfortunately the time has come to replace my current laptop (Samsung) it served well for over four years running various information systems, a pico scope and vagcom, and only one crash!! Though the mondeo going over the top of it proved to much at least I backed up my waveform library onto USB dongle!! Just wondered what is working well for you guys and which systems your running? The xp seemed to be able to deal with all I threw At it? Any opinions appreciated. Thanks R.I.P Samsung
Re: Which laptop?
Posted by Paul Howd on October 30, 2012, 10:42 pm, in reply to "Which laptop?" Message modified by board administrator October 31, 2012, 3:36 pm
Perhaps, if you are in the habit of driving customers cars over it, one of the "Militerised" ones might be a good idea!
Actually I have always fancied a Toughbook but the screens are so small.
(They are a bit pricy too...! )
Re: Which laptop?
Posted by Liam Boyle on October 31, 2012, 12:05 am, in reply to "Re: Which laptop?" Liam Boyle
I'm running a collection of HP TC4200 and TC4400 laptop/tablets. Haven't paid more than 150.00 for any of them (have 4 working) and have only upgraded the RAM to 2GHZ. They use a digitizer stylus so you don't have to worry about touching the screen and clicking on something accidentally. 3 USB ports but no serial on mine. Also no internal optical drive but you can buy new docking stations for 20-40 quid, some with DVDR drives. I've got a 22 inch monitor, wireless keyboard/mouse and printers and speakers all running through the docking station so you just place it on top and its like having a desktop PC. Most are on XP pro but I have one running Windows 7 after searching for various drivers and it seems very stable. XP pro would be good enough though for most auto related tasks and software. Handy in that you can write on the screen and can annotate wave forms etc with various free software. Usually get at least 2 hours from the battery running bluetooth/wireless and bright screen. Look for the larger hard drive models as the drive is an older style and quite expensive if you can find a new one. Other than that I have a Samsung NC10, with upgraded RAM, for the longer battery life but smaller screen.