In-car Navigation
Submitted: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 at 14:13
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I am using an old Toshiba Satellite laptop in my Hilux with an 8 inch touch screen on the dash. Have the system hooked up to my Garmin hand held and am running Ozi Explorer. Brilliant.
Have been looking into the idea of also installing Trav route Copilot on the lap top for use around town. (Trav route being an in-car street directory navigation system I could use in unfamiliar capital cities. Have a Melways but no Sydway, Brisway, Adledway or Perthway??)
Problem is, the old lap top runs Windows 98 and the latest trav route V8 will only run on Windows 2000 or better and needs 128Mb Ram minimum.
I can upgrade the 64M RAM but was wondering if the earlier version 7 or below is available anywhere. I know that V7 will work on Win 98
Reply By: Mr Fawlty - Wednesday, May 03, 2006 at 15:11
Wednesday, May 03, 2006 at 15:11
Phil, so you are not using the laptop in an open state, you are using a seperate monitor? I had given up on the laptop solution as I thought the thing would take to much space.
I would look around at some of the second hand computer
places and you may be able to Upgrade your laptop easily. I had a hard drive die on
mine & got one that was about 40 gig for $50 & 512 Kb memory for $30 I think, all second hand but it does me..New parts require a lotto win to buy, they are expensive.
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