Which mini laptop would be best for my sailboat?
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 at
2:03 am
I want to get my dad a mini laptop for his birthday that he can use up on our sail boat for checking whether conditions and other things. I was wondering, what is the best mini laptop out there that he can connect to the internet to without a wifi connection?
Most of the time he would be using it in the marina, or 1 or 2 miles off shore. We have outlets on the boat for charging it, so battery life (although important) isn’t super necessary.
And, it isn’t the ocean, it is Lake Michigan.
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Well, he could have the beat mini in the world, but if he’s far from shore and can’t get a connection, he’s SOL. Even some kind of 3G network would require him to be close enough to shore to get a signal (3G is fed from cell towers).
My roommate recently switch to an iPhone just for this reason. He has some pretty neat weather apps and he used the phone pretty extensively when sailing a boat up from Florida a couple of weeks ago. But, he had periods when the cell signal was too weak to make out out to the craft.
Anyway, consider this first. Whatever you get, get a spare battery.
dell mini 10