You are absolutely?right Chuck Cole.
On Mon, Feb 6, 2023, 9:18 AM Chuck Cole K4TZO <
cncole@...> wrote:
All Windows gurus I know won't put Win 11 in anything. Two reasons: 1) causes incompatibilities with many major SW packages, forcing purchases of new SW, and 2) not yet bug-free and won't be until out for several years. I recommend that you go back to Win 10 ASAP. Has no known benefit over Win 10 and known liabilities.
On Mon, Feb 6, 2023, 8:26 AM Don N4RRT <
n4rrt@...> wrote:
Timely ¡ I just purchased the 128GB version of that education/rugged laptop for exactly that application: POTA and portable operation with my FT-817 and BitX-based home-brew rig.?
I purchased mine from Microcenter:?
All the windows HR software installed easily (as expected) ¡ I also have the Arduino IDE as well as the latest Python distributions installed ¡ plenty of room and reasonable performance.? Spyder, a computational sciences/scientific application focused cross-platform IDE is a little slow to start, but once going has reasonable performance.? N1MM+ works great too.?
My laptop also included a free upgrade to Windows 11, that also installed easily. ?
So, why?? I wasn¡¯t happy with using my RaspberryPi for portable ops ¡ was a little kludgy with the VNCapp on my iPad etc ¡ a cheap windows computer just seemed easier and more compact.? Also, my objective was low friction portable operations, not exploring linux, using a RPi, etc.? So after a bit of playing around with the RPi option, snagged the laptop when I saw it.?
?The little edu laptop works just as well with the FT-817 as my desktop Win 10 machine in the shack does with my shack radios.? Compared to the RPi, a lot less to tinker with to get out of the backpack and on the air portable as well.? Again, this is all about your preference ¡?
NB: I¡¯ve not used the laptop yet with my homemade opto interface to my homebrew rig, but assume is should work fine as well. ?
Most of all, have fun!
Don
N4RRT
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73,
Don
N4RRT
