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I am looking for a small form factor mobile device that needs the following capabilities:
Win XP Pro capable
7hour+ battery life
1024x+ resolution
SSD HD (size is not of concern)
1gb+ ram
I am curious what my options are, I've been looking around and not finding much. We currently use EEE PC 901's, they fit the bill, but are discontinued, and the new lineups come with laptop HDs which do not survive so well in the way these are used (not frisbees or anything but we've tried it before.. replaced a hard drive like every 2 months :P)
I've considered buying the new lineup of netbooks and throwing SSD HD's in them, but that raises the purchase price, and voids the warranty instantly.. so not a very good route to go =(
Entaille, you can stay with a EEEPC if youd like. They have a current model, the T91, that will keep the SSD. They are in shortage right now, but you might be able to scrounge one up. A little more expensive (circa $450), but available.
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thanks guys. silvr - cart space is valuble, so the little netbooks really help out. the ssd hd's are a must, we killed way too many standard hard drives and it was irritating working on them all the time.
I will look out for that one Lynch, we are looking to buy a couple of replacement units in the near future though, so I might need to get something else for the time being
I found T91's pretty readily available. looks like they are around 500$ a pop and the battery life is 5 hours. These things get used for the entire work day, so 7hrs+ is a must.
pain in the butt to find a niche product that fufills these requirements. the 901 did it, but they are not selling them anymore : P
thanks guys. silvr - cart space is valuble, so the little netbooks really help out. the ssd hd's are a must, we killed way too many standard hard drives and it was irritating working on them all the time.
I will look out for that one Lynch, we are looking to buy a couple of replacement units in the near future though, so I might need to get something else for the time being
our warehouse item pickers utilze them on their carts to quality check their picks on the spot, that way when they return to the packing area, if they picked the wrong item, they don't have to run all over the warehouse to swap, they find out right as they pick it.
ideal pieces of equipment would be RF scan guns by symbol/motorola and the likes, they just aren't in the budget right now.
smaller size netbooks fit perfectly into the carts and don't really take up any real estate, adding a few inches might change that.
the only RF guns that would work for our needs would need windows CE 5.0, MC9060s MC3090s and such. we have a lot of them in use for other needs of the warehouse. you are right, they do last a long time, and our warranty coverage is excellent.
it appears as that unit requires power from a vehicle source?
most of their business class products rival the cost of the symbol/moto rf guns and at that price point we would probably just pick them up since it would be easiest to support the same products throughout the lineup, interchangeability etc.
it appears as that unit requires power from a vehicle source?
most of their business class products rival the cost of the symbol/moto rf guns and at that price point we would probably just pick them up since it would be easiest to support the same products throughout the lineup, interchangeability etc.
Agreed, but you can also expand this platform to do more than just RF scanning. Depends on what you are doing, heck they could even punch in their timeclock on the darn thing if you wanted.
Device suggestion?..(netbooks, equivalants etc)
