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[Mister Rog]

I prefer the Sanyomushi XG295Yi






 

[Lizzie Zoom]

First sentence might be a clue

Thanks DG.  You wrote though:
"Have just acquired one of the above with a view to using it on the car... plan to use iCarsoft MB 7.4 initially, then later Star C3/4. Might also load DICE on it for Volvo (or its marine equivalent)."

Now do you think that explains it to someone, like me, who's IT limit is the PC, Iphone and Ipad?

[redelitev6]

  I always thought "war and peace" was a tough book

[TheBoy]

Toughbooks are great.  But DG's - without looking up model - sounds like it may be from around 15yrs ago, which just isn't suitable to run anything.

I suspect, again without looking, it needs an IDE drive, which are rocking horse shit now, and probably going to struggle to get anything above 80Gb anyway.

The RAM - and it will need its full compliment to be even remotely useable - will be expensive if available.  And TBH, less than 1Gb to run XP with the last SP on is looking tight. Thats before any applications.

[Doctor Gollum]

Been rummaging...

Can get a 1GB RAM upgrade for it, and also a new 120Gb IDE hard drive for it for sensible money.

Does that help?

[TheBoy]

I thought you said it max'd out at 768Mb? 1Gb is minimum I would consider for XP.

[Doctor Gollum]

I thought you said it max'd out at 768Mb? 1Gb is minimum I would consider for XP.

Some confusion there. Spec sheet suggests 1.5gb is allowed

I take it then that when it comes to RAM, more is better?

1Gb is certainly readily available for it.

[TheBoy]

1Gb should be sufficient (initially), assuming that the specs of the software you wish to run don't state higher requirements.


As said, I'd be wary of spending much on it (beyond software), as it's not a great base to start from, and any hardware you buy/acquire/rob will not fit newer stuff.

[omega2018]

about the only reason you'd need a toughbook is to go polar exploring or oil rigging like lincs said. Are you Red Adair? now in the age of SSDs (no moving parts) you don't need to worry about a bit of bumping up and down in a car driving to gatwick and back .  just bin it.

[zirk]

I may have some 2.5 IDE's kicking around somewhere which your welcome to have, cant remember what size they would be though I'll have to run them up as see whats what.

[Doctor Gollum]

about the only reason you'd need a toughbook is to go polar exploring or oil rigging like lincs said. Are you Red Adair? now in the age of SSDs (no moving parts) you don't need to worry about a bit of bumping up and down in a car driving to gatwick and back .  just bin it.

If you bothered to read the whole post, you'd see it will eventually be used in a marine environment 

I may have some 2.5 IDE's kicking around somewhere which your welcome to have, cant remember what size they would be though I'll have to run them up as see whats what.

Thank you Chris, will drop you a text later.

[Kevin Wood]

I've got a "few" IDE drives in the loft too.

[minifreek]

If its only being used for DIAGs on cars (especially VIDA/DICE for Volvo) it will be perfectly fine if you upgrade the memory to its max and also get the biggest HDD you can that will fit.... The IDE drives are still available new, but limited on capacity. 1 Tb HDD should be fine for a while, but does depend on the file sizes placed upon it. Minimum that XP wants to run is 500Mb, it only recognises upto 2Gb anyway so just max it out... If there is new firmware available to flash the BIOS do it, it might allow more to be done with it and possibly make it a bit quicker too... You could also maybe look into replacing the CPU also for a faster chip thats compatible with the motherboard/BIOS, if its possible...

Iv still got an old 386 PC that runs perfect and actually boots up quicker than my main PC, it doesn't like to connect to the interweb though.... LOL

[omega2018]

about the only reason you'd need a toughbook is to go polar exploring or oil rigging like lincs said. Are you Red Adair? now in the age of SSDs (no moving parts) you don't need to worry about a bit of bumping up and down in a car driving to gatwick and back .  just bin it.

If you bothered to read the whole post, you'd see it will eventually be used in a marine environment 

OK Red

[Andy H]

I fitted a Kingspec pata/ide ssd to a Toshiba protégé R200 a few years ago. It was the only way I could find at the time to source a drive larger than the fitted hdd due to the odd multi-pin connector on the cable (most 2.5" drives use a flat ribbon cable and a  zif connector)

It does start a lot quicker with a ssd fitted