I'm not real technical but I can run Ham Radio Deluxe, JT65HF and a Avast virus scan all at the same time and it doesn't appear that it breaks a sweat. I settles on a Lenovo G570 with a 500g hard drive, an Intel i3 processor 2.4ghz (whatever that is) and 4g of memory. I only shopped at Best Buy and Office Max, which are right down the street from me. The cheapest ones have smaller hard drives (which are huge compared to the old days) and slower processors. In a nutshell I found that for 500-600 dollars you can buy a really nice machine that will be fast and have a large hard drive on it. I really didn't have time to shop at ten stores so I chose the Best Buy and Office max near where I live. I'm not a real technical person, but I did just go through what you did (wanting to purchase a new laptop for the digital modes). I operate from campgrounds often and choose the electric sites when I bring my laptop and operate the digital modes. If I can rescue the two very sick ones, I will use them for some other purpose.įrom your bio, it sounds like you might be RV'ing and staying at campgrounds. So, the SONY is now the only game in town unless the netbook will do the job. I can access it with remote desktop from here. I tried running all of my tools on it, to no avail - I eventually determined that the tools can't see the hard drive. Finally, this week, it started having hissy fits and running very slowly. The display on it died a couple years ago. I have a Lenovo that's been my main computer for several years now. Since the keyboard on that one sucks anyway, I relegated it to the 'investigate later' pile.
Incoming audio is fine, but no audio out.
A couple weeks ago, the COMPAQ's audio stopped working - internal soundcard or external.
I switched from that one back to an old COMPAQ that had seen better days a long time ago, and had always had some issues. Right now, the only one that really works correctly is a Sony, and I had some RFI issues with it around a 100 watt radio. Lately, I've been having very bad luck with my laptops, though. I saw one on sale for under $200 at Best Buy yesterday. I am actually surprised that it will even run WINMOR reasonably well. I've been using a cheapo netbook for digital stuff, and for programming my radios.