Expedition GPS Laptop

[Tanto]

Just as an FYI, Panasonic has introduced a new line of Toughbooks that has NVRAM storage which eliminates the conventional HDD so you won't need to worry about a bump causing your hard drive to go bad.

[glenyoshida]

I second the Globalsat BU-353, street price is about $50 shipped. It has very good sensitivity, sleek design, and it's weatherproofed. I have another one that will drop the signal fairly often, it's a Holux.



I use Street Wizard, Microsoft Streets and Trips, and National Geographic Topo. I've heard good things about the Delorme topo and I'm planning on adding it on someday.

I'm pretty happy with the National geographic topo maps. It's not as up to date as I'd like though. I'd say about 10% of the time the map shows trails that don't exist now or it doesn't show the new trail. Even still, I don't know of a better map for the price. Maybe Delorme?



Franson makes a GPS Gate client called Franson GpsGate that splits your GPS mouse signal to multiple mapping software programs. This allows you to run more than one mapping program simultaneously on one GPS mouse. Very handy since one map will have info that another won't. I'd like to see a soft map that shows land ownership like in my paper map books that I also carry.

Lance, did you ever try out that GPS mouse I sent ya?

[NakSuKow]

I would check out some of the aviation moving map programs. I am not familiar with any (civilian versions) but if they don't allow for moving map mode or allow u to switch maps on the fly/ use imagery and georectify your own maps it not worth the investment.

Most of these programs are anemic on map tools as well....does anyone know of a civilian version of falcon view?

[DHC6twinotter]

Not sure how well this would work, but here is something interesting:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834220261

They are dirt cheap, and supposedly run pretty well. My boss just ordered one to play around with, so I'm curious to see how well it works for him. It has solid state hardrive, so no worries with the HD. Plus, it is small and light.

Only problems with this, is that it doesn't have a large hard drive. Any movies and/or music would have to be played off an external hard drive. However, many people have been modding these things and soldering up 16 gig memory sticks. It also runs Linux, but XP can be installed.

Anyways, just thought I'd throw that out for you all to see.

Just my $.02.

[Good Times]

[hijack=on]

hey glen! welcome aboard. I really didn't get a chance to make it work. but before I had enough time to work on it I ended up crashing the 4runner so it's been on hold ever since. Been busy rebuilding . I still owe you some big bucks for the gps unit so I'll be sending you some $ (I promise!)

[hijack=off]

[slosurfer]

Lance, what program were you using for the mojave trip?

[Good Times]

topo fusion

[Seanz0rz]

i just got a killer deal on topousa 7, i like topousa 6 and this is suppose to be quite a bit better.

if its worth it, ill give it a review here on the site.

[slosurfer]

thanks, it seemed to work pretty good. It was more accurate than my map on that one section in the lava fields.

sean that would be cool if you did a review

[dontdo_that]

Not sure how well this would work, but here is something interesting:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834220261

They are dirt cheap, and supposedly run pretty well. My boss just ordered one to play around with, so I'm curious to see how well it works for him. It has solid state hardrive, so no worries with the HD. Plus, it is small and light.

Only problems with this, is that it doesn't have a large hard drive. Any movies and/or music would have to be played off an external hard drive. However, many people have been modding these things and soldering up 16 gig memory sticks. It also runs Linux, but XP can be installed.

Anyways, just thought I'd throw that out for you all to see.

Just my $.02.

Daniel you bastard! I was just going to post about that laptop!

Asus makes excellent products. I have used several of their motherboards for AMD Socket-A processor applications and they make some of the best "Workstation" series motherboards for desktop systems (IE: Workstation storage and expandability using desktop processors as opposed to server processors).

The laptop Daniel posted about is a small, 7" monitor laptop that has a Celeron M processor and a fair amount of RAM that can be used to run mildly demanding applications, connect to the internet and perform other basic things such as music/movie playback. Its price is listed at ~ 350 on Newegg.