Re: Laptop mount - The resul.

Mine manages to be transported to work most days in a series LR. Admittedly its not running at the time, but nothing in it has failed yet.. The only thing that might fail eventually in the laptop is the HD. I presume you can buy some more shock proof ones if you try, but i reckon my standard laptop one could hack it. Ive dropped it before while using it and its never complained!.

I've been running a laptop non stop in my landie for nearly 3 years now, doesn't seem to affect it at all, I did drag the same laptop 16,000 around USA and canada in a Jeep as well. I use it for sat Nav, TV tuner, Media Player, and Email. Never a problem. The only time it ever failed on me was in an office and that was due to a power spike! But it is a permenant fixture in my landie now, gets pulled out for rubbing down to remove mud occasionally. (from the laptop! Not used as a mud scraper itself!)

Mark

I had a neat little MP3 library based on two laptop HDDs (and linux o/s for anyone who's interested). The mountings for the drives were quite substantial - but they still kept popping at an alarming rate. Gave up in the end...

The HDDs in both my Toshiba laptops have never complained though and have also been dropped quite a lot :-)

Mines a toshiba too, and its now on its 3rd or 4th year of abuse.. Perhaps they actually use decent harddisks? I wasnt expecting too much from it when i bought it, but I havent found many other makes of laptop that have lasted as long as mine without going wrong.

There are loads of Dell laptops at work, and i've been sending them back for broken harddisk in bulk.

I've given up on Dell. One of our customers ordered (on our advice) a new server and specified RedHat linux preloaded as the o/s. It duly arrived 2 weeks later than the promised delivery date - with Windoze XP loaded.

Took endless calls and a final threat that the box would be left on the pavement at 4pm the following afternoon, before they reluctantly collected it, took it away for another week and returned it, with Windoze 2000...

Twas Fri, 02 Apr 2004 12:10:51 +0100 when Mother put finger to keyboard producing:

you will comply.... LOL

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I actually said "ooohh" out loud as I looked at the pix. Great job!

David

Did it work succesfully on its test run then?. No problems with the laptop falling off or anything?

I've put dibs on the speaker wall brackets my dad is taking down from his house! :)

Worked a treat.... Never fell off, it was subject to the tip it upside down test (whislt sat on the sofa) pre installation and passed (remained stuck to the mount).

The software only faultered once during the 400 miles telling us to pull off the A1(M) then get back on at the same junction. Obviously a programming error, though to be fair I've yet to download and install the upgrades so this may have been resolved. Anyway I can cope with one hic-up in 400 miles as it's a vast improvement on our normal navigation, not that were bad, just easily distracted by other Landies. And again to do the kit justice If I'd glanced at the screen the clearly marked mapping showed a continuation down the motorway. I was also impressed that it sets you up 1 km before an obstacle such as motorway junction too. It really came into it's own though when we got to street level, took up virtually outside the place we collected the engines from based on a postcode only destination. Had the laptop gone down we would have been floundering around for ages in foreign terratory. It also coped well with the loss of signal going through the tyne tunnel and soon recused us on the other side in the very complexed if your not used to it road system.

The only other quickly resolved issue was the Rangie's heated windscreen convinced the GPS Mouse we were somewhere other than England. A quick relocation of the mouse and fixing to the windscreen in an area without heating elements sorted this though.

I'm impressed :-)

Lee D

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