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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: redrumloa on February 18, 2004, 03:30:37 AM

Title: Military grade laptop with touchscreen on eBay, no joke:-)
Post by: redrumloa on February 18, 2004, 03:30:37 AM

Seriously! It's not Amiga, but since there seems to be a facination with things military grade I thought you all would appreciate it:-D

HERE (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=177&item=3461533479)

Title: Re: Military grade laptop with touchscreen on eBay, no joke:-)
Post by: Ilwrath on February 18, 2004, 04:57:13 AM

Wow.... that's one ugly laptop, huh?  

Would probably be great out in the field, though.  It would probably make a perfect on-site computer for a construction or land surveying company.  They wouldn't need big power, but need a machine that could stand up to the abuse and weather.  It sure does look rugged!

Title: Re: Military grade laptop with touchscreen on eBay, no joke:-)
Post by: x56h34 on February 18, 2004, 05:50:42 AM

I could use one of those with Star Commander (with XE1541 cable) and my 1541 & 1571 drives, as newer type parallel ports don't usually work with it.

Title: Re: Military grade laptop with touchscreen on eBay, no joke:-)
Post by: whabang on February 18, 2004, 07:35:39 AM

Cool! Too bad that the over-sea shipping would cost more than the machine itself, or I'd bid on it! :-D

Title: Re: Military grade laptop with touchscreen on eBay, no joke:-)
Post by: iamaboringperson on February 18, 2004, 07:44:34 AM

I had always wondered if that sort of thing existed!

I remember reading about some scientists who worked at the south pole, and had to replace their notebook every couple of weeks due to the cold - I think they started using luggables instead.

Title: Re: Military grade laptop with touchscreen on eBay, no joke:-)
Post by: Palpatine on February 18, 2004, 07:51:41 AM

@redrumloa

What are the specs??

Cheers,
Ron

Title: Re: Military grade laptop with touchscreen on eBay, no joke:-)
Post by: sir_inferno on February 18, 2004, 08:53:34 AM

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Palpatine wrote:
@redrumloa

What are the specs??

Cheers,
Ron

heh heh, i'm sure you can but waterproof cases, but why not just get a tablet? if you're out in the field, use on OSK...

specs are crappy, it's liek 200MHZ and win95

Title: Re: Military grade laptop with touchscreen on eBay, no joke:-)
Post by: Jope on February 18, 2004, 10:02:57 AM

Well, if you want a modern ruggedized laptop, then take a look at the Panasonic Toughbook (http://www.panasonic.com/computer/toughbook/design_features.asp) line..

Title: Re: Military grade laptop with touchscreen on eBay, no joke:-)
Post by: redrumloa on February 18, 2004, 12:18:43 PM

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Palpatine wrote:
@redrumloa

What are the specs??

Cheers,
Ron

200Mhz, 48MB RAM, 3GB HD, 8XCD, 33.6 modem, 10" color LCD Touchscreen, Win95 & handwriting recognition software.

This is a very neat laptop! It's unbelievable how sturdy this thing is! You could LITERALLY drop it or run it over with a car without much worry! It's a damn brick!

Title: Re: Military grade laptop with touchscreen on eBay, no joke:-)
Post by: amigamad on February 18, 2004, 02:40:06 PM

Much better than the rubbish that dell sell.

Title: Re: Military grade laptop with touchscreen on eBay, no joke:-)
Post by: SilvrDrgn on February 18, 2004, 02:44:32 PM

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amigamad wrote:
Much better than the rubbish that dell sell.

I have a Dell Inspiron 4150 laptop with Win-DOHS XP (read: eXtra Poop, eXtra Problems, ).  It works great when Win-DOHS isn't messing things up.

Title: Re: Military grade laptop with touchscreen on eBay, no joke:-)
Post by: sir_inferno on February 18, 2004, 04:49:25 PM

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SilvrDrgn wrote:

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amigamad wrote:
Much better than the rubbish that dell sell.

I have a Dell Inspiron 4150 laptop with Win-DOHS XP (read: eXtra Poop, eXtra Problems, ).  It works great when Win-DOHS isn't messing things up.

What's wrong with one of those?
Get it, unwrap it, boot it up, format the hard drives, flash the bios, put the OS on a seperate partition [all of them NTSC of course] and you've got a brilliant computer :-D



[i'm not doomy]

Title: Re: Military grade laptop with touchscreen on eBay, no joke:-)
Post by: Cyberus on February 18, 2004, 05:04:27 PM

I've got a Dell Latitude, and I've never had any problems. In fact, I bought it after seeing a friend's Latitude. I would buy a Dell again....

Title: Re: Military grade laptop with touchscreen on eBay, no joke:-)
Post by: amigamad on February 18, 2004, 06:27:37 PM

I also have a dell latitude a 366 cpi these things are known by the local battery shop as having batterys that need replacing before the cells are worn because the electronics go wrong in them. Mine works well but is not a touch quality wise on my old texas instruments a rebadged acer 133 im hoping to sell mine to get some money towards a hpi savage 25 .

Title: Re: Military grade laptop with touchscreen on eBay, no joke:-)
Post by: whabang on February 18, 2004, 06:39:29 PM

The Inspiron series consists of low-quality crap. never buy it. The Latitudes is generally quite good.
Some of the inspirons are basically the same as other Latitude models - Dell just sells them for twice as much, and all they add is a little memory and perhaps a larger hard drive... :\

Title: Re: Military grade laptop with touchscreen on eBay, no joke:-)
Post by: spavatch on February 18, 2004, 09:58:16 PM

Just lovely! :-) I'd buy it if it was here, in Europe...

Title: Re: Military grade laptop with touchscreen on eBay, no joke:-)
Post by: redrumloa on February 18, 2004, 10:24:17 PM

BTW for whoever's interested.

Laptops by redrumloa (http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=redrumloa&include=0&since=-1&sort=3&rows=50) is FINALLY getting underway:-) Approximately 200 laptops will be listed within the next 2-3 weeks.

Think Amiga laptop, think AROS.

I've had a couple requests for a buy-it-now option on the Itronix laptop after it got an initial bid, so HERE (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3461732954) you go, I've listed a second one! Grabn that one with BIN before it gets an opening bid:-)

Title: Re: Military grade laptop with touchscreen on eBay, no joke:-)
Post by: odin on February 18, 2004, 11:40:47 PM

Hmmm, perhaps you might want to include more system specifications in the object discription, redrum?

Title: Re: Military grade laptop with touchscreen on eBay, no joke:-)
Post by: redrumloa on February 19, 2004, 01:33:55 AM

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odin wrote:
Hmmm, perhaps you might want to include more system specifications in the object discription, redrum?

Which item? What is lacking? Every item has full system specs AFAIK.

Title: Re: Military grade laptop with touchscreen on eBay, no joke:-)
Post by: cybereye on February 19, 2004, 02:48:27 AM

Here might be a better one. but the one on redrumloa's ebay the only thing is missing is the Antenna. I beleve that just an option.

Itronix Features XC-6250 (http://webpages.charter.net/ohlandl/itronix/iTronix_XC-6250_Features.html)

For user who hate windows system. This tell you how to install Linux on the Itronix XC-6250.

Linux on the Itronix XC-6250 (http://tuxmobil.org/itronix_xc6250.html)

The Itronix XC-6250 doesn't come with the floppy drive, but to get it bios to see the  
external Floppy. This site is an after market that can add a system that don't have a floppy.

Travel Floppy (http://www.accurite.com/Travel.html)