Sad to say but its not the case in the market most of our Flex users are in!
As with most Flex users, the laptop market seems to exist in the 500-1000 USD price range. One way to reduce cost (or increase margin depending on your perspective) is to not include any extras like cardbus, 1394 ports, etc. I think the sub-1K market is aimed towards students so connectivity issues outside of wifi and wired lan and some USB stuff is not really in demand. Oddly enough though, they all include a HDMI jack (which I guess is for watching movies on the monitor in the dorm)! If you look (and I do almost daily) for a sub-800 dollar laptop with expresscard slots or firewire ports and fine one, please let me know! 73 Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.abrohamnealsoftware.com (540) 645 5394 NEW PHONE NUMBER Amateur Radio: K3NC Blog: http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/ DXBase bug reports: email to [email protected] Abroham Neal forums: http:/www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/community/ On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Alan NV8A <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/05/10 03:33 pm, Ted Leonard wrote: > > I am thinking of a new laptop for my Flex 1500 with the idea that the >> 1500 may someday have a big brother Flex. >> What laptops have the necessary port to plug in a firewire adapter in >> case a big brother does arrive? >> > > I would expect that all reasonably recent laptops would have a CardBus slot > into which a TI-chipset FireWire adapter (US$30 or so) could be plugged. > Some laptops may even come with FireWire built in, but it may not be up to > the task of running a Flex. > > 73 > > Alan NV8A > > > _______________________________________________ > Flexedge mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz > This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used > for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist > who are using beta versions of the software. > _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software.
