Maps and notebooks?

Same as above Ian. I use a 10" Asus with a BU-353 GPS Mouse. The only thing I changed was the HDD to solid state as I had read that the Mechanical drive would suffer on Horrigations. Had no problems so far. 10 hour battery life before charging through my inverter.

Steve.B....

I use the EEE PC and it works very well. I use a plug in GPS and have had no issues so far.
Robin, do you have a base for yours to sit on or is it mounted on the passengers lap? LOL If you have a stand/base, I'f be interested to see what you are using and how it is mounted in the vehicle.

Thanks

Des

Hi Des

The Patrol has a second glove box where passenger airbag goes in some models.

It folds down and makes a lovely little table which holds the EEEPC nicely out of the way.

G'day Robin,

Thanks for the info. It looks like some Patrols have advantages after all LOL

Cheers

des

Image Could Not Be FoundI often travel alone and have my netbook with ozi.... set up on a bipod mounted on a bracket secured to the front right seat mounting bolt on the passenger side. The seat is then moved forward and this minimises any movement of the bipod. I recently completed a pretty major outback trip over some terrible tracks and roads and whilst the bipod swivels and joints had to be tightened occasionally, it was excellent. It was made in China and I bought it off Ebay...can't remember the exact cost but a bit over $100.00. Solid and well made.
Tony

Wow, I am amazed at the amount of electrical gadgetry that you can fit into one vehicle, can you actually read it all whilst driving?


Cheers

Took the words out of my mouth Mark. 7 years ago we had a setup similar to that for a remote desert trip with about $8k of electrical gear bolted to the dash & wires running everywhere. Last trip we replaced all that solely with a HTC phone. Ran Oziexplorer & IGO road navigator simultaniously while using it for MP3 music. When in town downloaded mail, used Google maps for planning & surfed the web. Even used it to navigate cross country trackless routes. I can't believe how quickly technology has progressed, probably to a point where we no longer need to obscure our view of the road & vehicle controls nor bolt things in front of airbags ;-)
As a side note I just took possession of a new "Motion Tablet PC" which is arguably one of the better units currently available for mobile mapping. Shock proof, splash proof, inbuilt GPS, 3G, camera etc. Pretty expensive but the resolution, viewable angle & anti glare screen are 2nd to none. Just getting a few mapping programs loaded now but looking very promising for an all in one mobile solution.
Cheers Craig............

Just to add that I hate clutter, so the laptop stays folded in the centre console and outputs to a 7" remote screen.