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Originally Posted by RussG
Yes I had thought about those issues. Even at £80 I should be able to get one with 40Gig HD and 512Mb of ram. With a processor more than sufficient to run XP and MM. I would keep anything else installed to the absolute minimum. Should come with built in wireless as well.
40G HD should be sufficient? Important as these things are not the sort of thing you upgrade!
As I ran this stuff on a 5yr old PDA on our last trip to Morocco I’m not worried about the spec. of the toughbook.
Re. the touch screen. I guess it should be at least as robust as any other screen on say a PDA or notebook.
How much was your notebook? I like the idea of keeping things std. and simple.
We use toughbooks at work, some now of the same vintage as the £80 ones to run reasonably demanding mapping software at work and they really are pretty much indestructible, superb build quality and very stable, something I’m not sure about with a notebook, or indeed a custom built DIY PC in adverse conditions.
Still pondering really.
Russ
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oooo, that spec is better than I thought you would get. Must admit, last time I looked was a little while back. 40GB should be fine. MM takes around 13-14GB of maps if your using 1:25k and want all of the UK. 1:50k can be had for 3GB. depends on your usage. Sounds like your in the same boat as me  mine is here: HP Compaq TC1100 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
also a 40GB HDD. The good thing about this is that I can just fold up the keyboard and just have the screen. It also weighs in less than 2kg. considerably less than a Toughbook. I know someone who has taken his TC1100 (in a land rover) down to Mali/Mauri over 7 times and its still going. So thats good enough for me right now.
Will post pics of my mount at somepoint. all it needed was a piece of Alu channel and velcro straps. job done. its solid too.
currently have MM, mapsource, N route, Fugawi, photoshop, and MS office installed  hopefully it will do everything i need on a longer trip.
Now the REAL question is, how can I link up a colour reversing camera for trailer hitch-up?!?! possibilities are endless.
G
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