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hobbit:

--- Quote from: "V8MoneyPit" ---Tend to agree with Huw. Can't beat a good old fashioned map. I had been pondering a PDA based sat nav, but really for long distance road trips rather than local laning. House move and humungous mortgage will now slow down the purchase of that though!
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The longer you wait the cheaper they get, prices are still dropping

Wanderer:
You can get a laptop, GPS and Memory map for under £150. Or just a small handheld extrex for £50ish and use it to plot your position on a OS map.

I've got to agree, I'll not be caught out again without paper maps. I took a group out and I was using two seperate GPS systems (trying one out for the first time) and they both decided to lose the GPS side of things. I had to revert to paper maps. Actually an A4 photocopied (naughty naughty) sheet until I had time at the first break to get the PDAs up and running again.

I reckon, as I had some problems getting started, that the PDAs chucked a wobbly due to a surge as they were still switched on when I was having starting problems.

Ed

V8MoneyPit:
Already got a laptop, but thought a PDA would be more convenient. I guess I could build a small frame on top of the cubby box to stop the laptop sliding around. Can the laptop be powered off the car battery?

Hang on.... what are you doing to me?? Now you've got me thinking about spending money again   :roll:

hobbit:
You can run a laptop within a vehicle no probs, gps to plug straight in too. But, the hard drive tends to disagree with bouncing around, unless you have something like Ed and a few others have which is one called the toughbook, with a specially protected hard disk

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