I found some used toughbooks for $100 and bought two of them after he broke his last one. He is still using the first one and we have one as a backup.
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 8:06 AM, Nate Burke <[email protected]> wrote: > I've thought about the air-router approach, but probably 90% of my > mikrotik work is with MAC-Winbox, setting up new routers. > > I just found the Acer Travelmate Spin B1. $330. Might pick one of those > up and see how it works. > > On 5/21/2018 8:53 AM, Steve Jones wrote: > > I paid 1500 for my Toshiba tecra (not toughbook) like 6 or 7 years ago, > it's been through he'll in the field, roofs, grain elevators, rain, drops, > left running in the bag and getting hot. It's on its 3rd battery, fourth > keyboard, but runs strong and never fails, even has serial port. Price > could have been less but I wanted the biggest processor because at the time > I was running multiple VMs. > > Lenovo are decent, the antiglare is still visiblish in the sun. The keys > fall off and batteries don't last, Ether net is questionable, but God only > knows what the techs stuck into it or settings they jacked up. > > Other than the need for wireshark occasionally, a cheap air router to > connect to the device with a ton of ip aliases has allowed me to do 99 > percent from my phone now. Onedrive syncs our base config to dump in, we > can test, allocate and finalize a customers installation directly from the > top of their tower. > > On Mon, May 21, 2018, 8:38 AM Nate Burke < <[email protected]> > [email protected]> wrote: > >> The Netbook I've been using for a the last couple years bit the dust on >> an install last week. Acer Aspire E11. It was working fine one minute, >> then the Ethernet adapter was not detected by windows anymore. Of >> course now-a-days nothing comes with a built in Ethernet adapter, I'd >> really hate having to remember to carry an Ethernet dongle everywhere. >> Looking for a small form factor ~11" so I can throw it in a canvas bag >> for a hike out to a tower site. SSD and several-hour battery life are >> very nice as well. >> >> It doesn't need any mighty CPU or Video, the only thing that it does is >> program Radios/Mikrotiks, and RDP into another machine. >> >> The only new machines I've found so far that fits this bill are the >> Lenovo Thinkpad line. It looks like a current gen 11" Thinkpad is >> ~$700. More than the $170 I paid for the Acer 5 years ago. I also >> don't like that all the connections are on the sides of machines now, >> instead of the back. When it's sitting on the truck console with things >> connected, that makes it a lot wider. The Thinkpads also specify that >> they have an 'Anti-glare' Screen. Would that make it easier or harder >> to see outside? >> >> Is there a brand or Type that I missed? $700 for a field laptop is a >> little more than I'd like to spend for something that has to survive >> field work. Although the $170 unit has worked just fine in these >> conditions for several years. >> > >
