Netbook choice.

[skipper681]

When I was into dropshipping I picked up a few suppliers along the way, here's one but i must stress I know nothing of the quality of this particular item and am not endorsing it but might it be worth a punt to someone.

http://wholesaler-dropshipper.com/uk/index.php?route=product/category&path=62

 

[Allan]

To complete this and my previous thread.
Today I ordered one of these:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-MINI-1...097&pid=100015&prg=1006&rk=1&sd=360510151588&
There are some good reviews all over the internet for both the netbook itself and the N2600 chip. Hopefully it will come somewhere near the 10 hour working time mentioned in the description, although there is a rider about batteries.
If people are interested I will post news of how I get on.help so far.
Many thanks for all your
Allan

 

[typhoonNige]

I have recently bought an Acer Aspire One 756 for the boat. This has 4gb ram so runs the full Windows 7. Laptop performance from a netbook size computer. £249 from Tesco - including student discount of £20 which seems to be available to anyone.

 

[Fantasie 19]

To complete this and my previous thread.
Today I ordered one of these:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-MINI-1...097&pid=100015&prg=1006&rk=1&sd=360510151588&
There are some good reviews all over the internet for both the netbook itself and the N2600 chip. Hopefully it will come somewhere near the 10 hour working time mentioned in the description, although there is a rider about batteries.
If people are interested I will post news of how I get on.help so far.
Many thanks for all your
Allan

A good choice overall - the link I give above to turning my Netbook into a plotter uses the same basic machine except I'm using the 210.. I've been very happy with it......

I chose mine based primarily on battery hours as well, and have to say that I've been very impressed.... investigate the power saving options they're good....

I used it this year on a trip to Cowes and it easily lasted two days on one charge, just hibernating when it wasn't being used....

Separately I used it for a solid 6 hours this summer on a day sail, but that was before I discovered the power saving options (dimming the screen brightness etc.) per the link, that was using it purely as a plotter running OpenCPN with an external GPS

 

[Conachair]

Slight thread drift but is anyone else using opencpn with both ais & gps coming in via serial/usb converters? Mine seems OK with just gps coming in but crashes with both in windows.

Seems fine with linux (ubuntu).

Might be worth sticking linux on there as well for a bit extra stability.

 

[sailorman]

Slight thread drift but is anyone else using opencpn with both ais & gps coming in via serial/usb converters? Mine seems OK with just gps coming in but crashes with both in windows.

Seems fine with linux (ubuntu).

Might be worth sticking linux on there as well for a bit extra stability.

Yes Open CPN with both AIS (Belfield) & a Maplins £20 GPS, both usb antenna stuck inside the cabin window. all works just fine.
running W7 & XP available on 2 lappies

 

[Conachair]

Yes Open CPN with both AIS (Belfield) & a Maplins £20 GPS, both usb antenna stuck inside the cabin window. all works just fine.
running W7 & XP available on 2 lappies

Ta, might be something wierd with that machine then.

Loving the logbook plug-in on opencpn

 

[Allan]

I use Advansea AIS and Bluenext GPS both on USB. Maybe your problem is the serial/USB interface? I had trouble with one years ago and fixed it, I think, by reinstalling the driver.
Allan

 

[Conachair]

I use Advansea AIS and Bluenext GPS both on USB. Maybe your problem is the serial/USB interface? I had trouble with one years ago and fixed it, I think, by reinstalling the driver.
Allan

Yeah, might be one of the interfaces. But getting used to Ubuntu V quickly so will prob stick with that.

 

[jimi]

Slight thread drift but is anyone else using opencpn with both ais & gps coming in via serial/usb converters? Mine seems OK with just gps coming in but crashes with both in windows.

Seems fine with linux (ubuntu).

Might be worth sticking linux on there as well for a bit extra stability.

I'm using that set up. Both USB on W7 starter and works fine

 

[sebastiannr]

I have a Lenovo X230, which is overkill for running openCPN, but the inbuilt WWAN card is great as it has GPS and 3G connectivity for downloading GRIB files when coastal sailing. It also has a 256GB SSD which means less power usage and no danger of HDD failure if the thing is dropped.

Expensive, but you can pick them up on ebay for £400+

 

[AngusMcDoon]

I work full time in IT and have done for many, many years. In that time I have seen exactly one Java app that was well written...

Eclipse.
Guess you're not a developer, as it's the root of most non-Microsoft IDE's now.

 

[StuE]

I use Samsung NC110 netbook - use to have problems with opencpn / usb gps when the netbook went to sleep. on wakeup opencpn / gps connection was lost and i would have to restart. All was resolved by using xport.

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Eclipse.
Guess you're not a developer, as it's the root of most non-Microsoft IDE's now.

And a lot of web applications outside of the .NET and ASP world, especially in the geospatial world (Geoserver and it's offspring, for example). PHP is it's big rival, but lacks the back-office capabilities of Java.