I just bought (on eBay) a still-in-warranty ThinkPad T61 (light-alloy
chassis) for US$500 and added a TI-chipset CardBus card. Seems to run my
Flex-5000 quite well, although that's not what I had in mind when I
bought it. This model has built-in shock-sensor devices, and they report
no problems.
73
Alan NV8A
On 09/05/10 06:06 pm, [email protected] wrote:
Neal, Totally agree. The D630's cost the program that I'm working on around
$2,100.00 each set up the way we wanted them, and we ordered 2400 of them. But
we do put any selected laptop that we purchase for the program, though all of
the performance test and we only select models that meet our requirements which
are high. I know that purchasing a used laptop, is one thing I would not
recommend. Laptops get used hard in most business applications, they are
dropped, bounced, and really just used to all hell. To get a good reliable
laptop to run a Flex with the hardware features that you need, I would guess in
the 1,700 to 1,900 dollar price range. I haven't tried one of the new Dell
Studios yet, but I did purchase one with an i7 process for my daughter before
she heading off to college this summer, but the next weekend that she comes
home, I'll give it a try and let you know how it works.
73's,
Mike
KE7WRJ
--- [email protected] wrote:
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!
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.
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