DPapay
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Anyone have a netbook that they use for programming moto radios? Like Astro25 Mobiles and Portables, or even APX. The $200 price tag for these netbooks makes this idea attractive. Looking at Asus, 1gig RAM.
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I use an Acer Aspire One Netbook with 160G HD running XP using USB cables or a Manhattan USB to serial converter when necessary as my only programming computer on all the CPS products you mention. No regrets. It's got over 300 codeplugs in the logbook so far and no sweat. For field convenience and touchpad relief, I would advise you to equip yourself with a suitable wireless mouse that is not too particular about the surface it sees. For that I'm using a Logitech M305 that has been reliable for over two years. It has a small dongle that protrudes only ~1/4 inch from the USB port when plugged in.
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Wirelessly posted (Moto Droid Bionic: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.4; en-us; DROID BIONIC Build/5.5.1_84_DBN-74) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1)
Not under $200, but my Asus eee-1018pc is a very solid unit. 1.6 GHz, and for $15 (NewEgg) I bought a 2Mb RAM card to swap out the original 1Mb. USB3.0 port too. I also use it to program the scanner and two Yaesu radios. I can even run Libreoffice and Adobe Acrobat X Pro on it. Using a bluetooth mouse keeps all ports open. HTH.
Not under $200, but my Asus eee-1018pc is a very solid unit. 1.6 GHz, and for $15 (NewEgg) I bought a 2Mb RAM card to swap out the original 1Mb. USB3.0 port too. I also use it to program the scanner and two Yaesu radios. I can even run Libreoffice and Adobe Acrobat X Pro on it. Using a bluetooth mouse keeps all ports open. HTH.
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