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Re: Laptop and Autocross

To: christoc@christoc.com
Subject: Re: Laptop and Autocross
From: jeff@winchell.com
Date: 28 Dec 2001 22:16:59 -0800
On Thu, 27 December 2001, "Christopher Hammond" wrote:

> 
> With all the Palm converation lately I was wondering what people's opinions 
>are of >laptops in their car while they run? What do you use? The cheapest 
>laptop you can find? >I don't know if i'd want to subject my VAIO to that much 
>abuse, but it would be really >cool to be able to hook up a mini cam and just 
>record straight to the laptop instead of >to tape. Anyone have any thoughts on 
>this?

Given the testing that they do with Dells and HP's (dropping laptops several 
feet onto the floor, I doubt that autocross would hurt a laptop. I ran an old 
(1994) TI laptop in my ESP Mustang a couple years ago (using Autotap OBD-II 
scanner for some data logging) and the laptop survived fine. 




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