I bought the acer last week, mainly to run my sdriq and sdr1500
(when released) "in the field". I ended up paying under $250 in
a "black friday special" with 120G hd and 1G memory. I have tried it
with the sb extigy external usb sound card and it works well with
the 3 sdr applications i use (KGK, powersdr and Rocky) I also tested
it with the hpsdr and it works well
Do not think of buying the flash ram version and trying to upgrade
to a HD later, unless you have VERY good motherboard soldering
desoldering skills, the ram is soldered to the board NOT
connectorised
There is a very useful "user" web site on this computer
I did look at the asus version, but I wasnt convinced the cheaper
looking keyboard would last field operation
Dave
ww2r
and the sdr1500--- In softrock40@..., "Mark J. Dulcey"
<mark@...> wrote:
Cecil Acuff wrote:
I had been wondering about that little computer...I have also
considered
buying one for the SDR project.
Anyone tried the ASUS version that's being sold...not sure what
the model
designation is. It's under $400 here.
There are a lot of competitors in that space now: the Asus Eee 901
and
1000, the MSI Wind, the Dell Inspiron Mini, the HP Mini 1000, the
Lenovo
IdeaPad S10, and probably some others I missed. Their specs are
all very
similar: 1.6GHz Atom, usually 1GB RAM (although many of the
systems can
be expanded to 2GB by the user, netbooks with Windows XP can't be
shipped with more than 1GB; it's a license limitation of the ULCPC
edition of Windows XP Home), some size of hard disk, and Windows
XP
Home. There are also netbooks with Linux and with flash storage
instead
of hard disks; I haven't yet seen one with Linux and a hard disk,
though
you could install Linux on the ones that come with Windows XP
easily
enough if you want to. I suspect that every one of them has the
same
audio limitations; only a mono mic input, just like most other
notebook
computers.
with lighting), a slightly wider keyboard than many (including
the Acer). And the higher-end model has 802.11n networking,
Bluetooth,
and a 6 cell battery, all for $430 at Micro Center.
Has anybody verified that the Atom CPU has enough horsepower to
run SDR
applications?
