I just ordered an acer1 as it says it has a gigE port...
On 5/21/18 7:12 AM, Jeremy wrote:
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]
<mailto:[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]
<mailto:[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.
