[Mesh] Lot of rugged/GPS-enabled laptops available

[Pete Forsyth]

Sorry, meant to also include this link for general specs of this line:
http://www.gd-itronix.com/index.cfm?page=Products:GoBookIII


On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Pete Forsyth <peteforsyth at gmail.com> wrote:

> All--
>
> I ran across something interesting on eBay, a lot of 4 rugged GoBook III
> Ix260 laptops. These are Pentium M laptops (i.e. old and slow) but they are
> rugged, they have built-in GPS capabilities, touch screens, and bright
> outdoor-viewing displays. They come without hard drives, but with caddies.
>
> I wonder if these might be useful for warbiking / node mapping, or other
> mesh/sudo activities? I am interested to fool around with them, and
> wouldn't mind owning one, but am hesitant to buy all 4 unless there is
> likely to be a use for them (and unless I could recover some of the cost).
>
> A little googling indicates that Ubuntu seems to run fine on them (I am
> running Lubuntu on a similarly-specced Dell, and am super happy with it).
> There might be an issue getting the touch screen to work -- I saw a
> question about that without any response.
>
>
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-of-4-Itronix-Go-Book-III-Rugged-Laptop-IX260-1-8GHz-1GB-WORKS-100-NOW-BIOS-/291047611667?pt=Laptops_Nov05&hash=item43c3ca1d13
>
> Thoughts?
> Pete
>
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