That's the way I see it. I have a Lenovo T400 laptop running Win 7 Home with a
core 2 duo P8400 @2.2 GHz with 4 GB of RAM. I slapped in a 128G SSD and put the
original HD in a caddy in the CD drive slot. Runs everything, USB
keyboard/mouse, SDR-IQ, K3S, DXBase, MMTTY, external monitor, etc. Don't see
what the fuss is about.
To run my SDR-Kits VNWA in the field I found an old HP Elitebook in a thrift
store for $100. It had Win 7 Pro installed and a good battery. I went all out
and put in a 256G SSD and reloaded 7 Pro. It too will run everything. After
getting nagged enough by Microsoft I figured I'd try Win 10 on it. Installed
fine although the start menu was hosed (common problem apparently) I don't
care as I still run the 10 year old "Classic Menu" using Classic Shell.
(I can remember running a whole room full of HP test equipment with HP-IB and a
HP9836 computer running HP Basic with 256 K of RAM, or in HP jargon, a "Quarter
Pounder". A 1 MB card was a "Big Mac" and required a Division manager's
signature to buy)
On 1/5/2016 3:03 PM, Doug Person via Elecraft wrote:
FTDI USB to serial adapters work on ALL platforms - without exception. There
simply is no reason to worry about "native" RS232 interfaces.
An i7 to run a computer for a station is massive overkill. I use an Intel i3
NUC (4"x4"x2") with an SSD drive and 8 gigs of ram. Everything runs just fine,
including dual monitors. Unless you're planning on running an SDR, there
really isn't a lot of reason to have a lot of computing power for your station
computer. Logging, computer control, digital modes and just about everything
else hardly even challenges the most basic computer platform today.
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