Thread: best laptop for a car

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Mrs ho har

i picked up a HP NC6000 from ebay for $360 buy it now price, i originally bought it to tune my megasquirt tables and it has been faultless, it is more robust than other model of the same year (2005ish) and was originally targeted to business clients (performance over looks)

i have dropped it numerous times and it still works fine, it gets covered in dust every time i take it out in the bush (once or twice a week) and is still yet to stuff up, i have been using it for about 6 months now

it has dvd functions and the performance is more than capable

im planning on building a removable shock proof mount for it eventually, but its not urgent

so i highly recommend this range of laptop, apparantly HP and Dell are the ones to choose if you want a tough laptop

i have had toshiba laptops in the past and IMO they arent built to the same quality

I usually use a PDA.. Id suggest that if your going to have it up and operating on the move that you get something in a tablet format so you dont run the risk of damaging the hinges or vibrating the ribbon that drives the screen to death.

I think Blacknight is right, a tablet is definitely a good way to go.

I am running an Asus Eee PC 701(which is not a tablet).. but I have 2 reasons for my choice:

No1.. Right price - I got it very cheap on ebay

No2...It does not have a traditional harddrive - it is a solid state drive - This means no moving parts, and in an off road situation a significantly longer life.

The down size is that the drive is far smaller... but I only use it for a specific purpose.. and I can expand storage either through SD cards or external USB storage. ( I have a customised [read cut down really small] version of windows XP running on the 4Gig main drive and all my programs and Maps on an 8 Gig SD card )

Another really nice unit for PC based in car navigation is the Asus R2H

ASUSTeK Computer Inc.


Lots of options out there...unfortunately most pc's well suited to in car Nav and GPS... don't do so well for the Kids DVD.... unless you have a separate screen - DVD on a little screen sux

Good luck with it,

Mark

One with a matte screen.

Simon

I got a Dell Mini fits in upper glovebox.



Run it thru a touch screen



Solid State Drive 16 gig but 32 gig are available for $100 US.
Have a GPS serial antenna in the upper brake light housing.
Speaks to stereo via its blue teeth.

Interesting... CaverD3 - can you send music from the lappy to the stereo via bluetooth & if so is the quality better than an FM transmitter?

Sound quality seems better than via the headphone socket and Aux in in the stereo.