[amsat-bb] Re: Netbooks

[Bruce Robertson]

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 9:13 PM, myles landstein
<myles.landstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> if you look  around  now  you can find   regular (by that i mean  no cellular contract etc  ... required)  netbooks for   200$$    got one  last  weekend at Staples
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For my in-shack computer, I use similar technology in a shoe-box sized
desktop, the motherboard linked here:
http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/motherboards/D945GCLF2-D945GCLF2D/D945GCLF2-D945GCLF2D-overview.htm
often nicknamed as the 'Little  Falls 2'. By using it to drive a large
monitor, you get the best of both worlds: low CPU power and the screen
real estate that satellite operations sometimes requires.

My dream mobo would be one of these Intel Atom ones with more space
for ram and with  the virtualization features turned on so that I can
run linux images alongside the Win32 ham stuff.

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> On Dec 3, 2009, at 5:56 PM, Dave Webb KB1PVH wrote:
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>> Tony,
>>
>> I have been using an Aspire 1 netbook, it has a  1.6G CPU with 1G RAM and has 3 USB ports.  SatPC32 runs very well controlling an Icom 910. The cost was $299.
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>> 73,
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>> Dave KB1PVH
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>> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: "ANTHONY JAPHA" <tjjapha at earthlink.net>
>> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 16:45:36
>> To: amsat-bb<amsat-bb at amsat.org>
>> Subject: [amsat-bb]  Netbooks
>>
>> Hi All,
>> Has anyone used SatPC32 with a netbook computer?  I'd appreciate your comments.  Which netbooks do best?  What ports do netbooks come with?
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>> I just tried SatPC32 on AO-7 with an old Dell Inspiron 3800.  It works well controlling 2 FT-817s in the shack.  When outside, using a charged battery, it was very slow.  I had to restart SatPC32 a couple of times, and, as a result, lost at least 2 QSOs with Europe.  Maybe it's time for a change.
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>> Tnx and 73,
>> Tony, N2UN
>> LM 183
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