Better you change the Subject if wo want to get an answer. Am 2005-08-09 20:16:41, schrieb Chuck Ludlam: > headed to Senegal in the Peace Corps > thinking to take a laptop, but they seem rather fragile. I am working for the french Army and use a IBM R40 which is realy robust. I have used in for two years in Afghanistan (-11 to +38°C) and last year in Iraq (~42°C). I used it in Morocco (last year ~48°C). I can recommend it. One of the best Laptops I know. I have Internet Access via a Motorola satelite terminal. Greetings Michelle > perhaps a Mini-Itx would be much more durable. > it's HOT and dustry in Senegal. Becasue I am engineer I have made ma own computer in a waterproofed alu case. It is around 40x30x7cm and use for external connections military connectors I bought in an electronic shop in germany. :-) I use an AMD Duron 1200 with 512 MB of memory and 4 CF-Cards with 2 GByte. Realy fast CF-Cards. CDRom, Floppy and Cardreader are USB and extern. > what do you recommend for a system. Do it yourself. Because I am military, I have an experience of 20 years with it... > want to do work processing. want an SD card slot. not much more. :-/ > I guess a Mini-Itx would have no battery, so I'd be dependent on local power, which might be solar. > sounds like a Mini-Itx system is not something you can pack up much, or can you put it all in one Pelican case? I think, you do not need a normal PC-Power-Supply. You need an DC/DC Converter which exist for 12/24V => PC-Voltages but are expensive. > Advice needed. > thanks. Greetings Michelle -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi 0033/3/88452356 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)
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