Thread: best laptop for a car

I'll be upgrading the stock unit to one that has bluetooth & pairing it with the Eee Pc. Also a benefit will be hands free mobile or even Skype over Next G for when my Optus Mobile is out of range.

I bought a new MSI Wind with bluetooth and wireless built in. So far it has been brilliant. It also comes with a matte screen. The keyboard is also the best of the netbook bunch.

Hi all
readng what is here, I take it there is a smaller lap top than a lap top? A net book or note book? I have have a bit of a surf on the net and found several of them they mostly seem to be plastic frame not aluminium to save weight. Do any of you have first hand experience to know if they are still robust or not? I cant find any with dvd is this right or am I having a moment?

Cheers Blythe

The most robust ones will be the ones with a solid state drive.
None of them have DVD drives (they are too small) you can get USB dvd drive or convert them to DivX and play via a flash drive.

Good morning. Came across this on-line a while ago for Apple Mac users. Someone from the US installing a Mac Mini in the glove-box of a Series II Disco. 123Macmini.com - Mac Mini News - When Mac Mini Met Land Rover Of use? I agree that getting a solid state drive would great improve performance and stability when off-roading. Makes me wonder why LR continue to use DVD for the SatNav data - with current technology a plug in CF or SD card with the data on would be much more effective and, for manufacture, probably a lot cheaper than installing a DVD reader! Good luck with your choice and let us know how the installation goes (especially with pictures!)

Ok so it sounds like what I want isnt actually made? thats cool the littly has a portable dvd player so that answers that question. It would double up as the take away work computer as I do a bit of traveling and this lap top although very handy is bigger than I would like.

Does anyone know if they come with a incar mounting bracket?

Cheers Blythe

I've been looking into a new laptop for running the GPS on the boat and 4x4
so it had to survive water and being bashed about

my solution was getting a refurbished CF-18 Toughbook off flea bay
Toughbook CF-18 Digitzer Computer [CF-18D] - Panasonic Australia

Sealed unit with no fans it's got water proofing etc
It also has a touch screen which can be turned around


Rob

Originally Posted by Distortion

I've been looking into a new laptop for running the GPS on the boat and 4x4
so it had to survive water and being bashed about

my solution was getting a refurbished CF-18 Toughbook off flea bay
Toughbook CF-18 Digitzer Computer [CF-18D] - Panasonic Australia

Sealed unit with no fans it's got water proofing etc
It also has a touch screen which can be turned around


Rob

they the laptops land rover uses for IDS, they "SAY" that we can drive over it, wet it,, drop it, an it will be fine, but they wont let us have ago at it, all tho we have had one "fall" off a ramp jacked all the way up,, an it was fine, so they must be prity strong,, but the perfomance is like using a intel P1 again, god they are slow, allways locking up,,