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This may be what you're looking for. The CarrolTouch model is probably
most suitable. 15" touchscreen lcd designed for harsh environments (imagine doing worse to it on your sailboat than at a bar on the beach during spring break). A quick Froogle seach turns them up for around $700 http://www.elotouch.com/products/lcds/1529l.asp |
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Gordon wrote:
Doesn't most nav software allow only a limited number of usages (like 2?)? So what happens when your cheap ebay laptop crashes? Isn't your software history also? Just wondering Gordon I've never seen a software that required a key or unlock code that could not be reinstalled and have the key re-entered. So if you rebuild your system or acquire another, and are smart enough to have kept the registration key or unlock code, you simply install again and start over. Some of these softwares can be installed on multiple devices as long as the devices all have the same user I.D. On some hardware, particularly PDAs, the device must have the same Device I.D. (normally the name used for syncing) in order for the reinstall to work. And some software (Tom Tom 5 Navigator is a good example) a unique number in hardware (like the ROM I.D. or MAC address) is used in conjunction with the unlock code to prevent installation on more than one single device. On those the process is to install the software, send the installation code generated by the install process to Tom Tom, they then send you an unlock code, you enter that, and the software becomes fully capable. That PDA and the software are paired for life and it cannot be installed on any other device ever. Magellan limits their MapSend nav software to use with one GPS receiver and uses the hardware serial number embedded in the receiver to make that work. Garmin lets you use MapSource software products with two hardware devices. That is controlled by unlock codes obtained instantly via the internet, only two unlock codes are allowed for a given software serial number. There are minor variations in the processes for different type of software (street, topo, or marine mapping) and the process is not the same for all older versions of the software. Jack -- Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA - jackerbes at adelphia dot net (also receiving email at jacker at midmaine.com) |
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I don't know where the $4K number comes from, but the firm I mentioned has
marine displays below $1,000. Steve "purple_stars" wrote in message oups.com... DPFresh wrote: Hi all, different topic. SO in setting up my nav center - Dell laptop with SeaClear software... I want to keep the laptop in the cabin so as to avoid exposing it to elements... So I was thinking I could find some sort of waterproof external monitor to run from the laptop to outside the boat near the tiller.... Does anyone know of such a monitor for this purpose? Thanks, David personally i think it's better to think "big picture" on this. what is the goal ? to see your charts and other information out in the cockpit near the tiller from now until the cows come home. you want it to work in all conditions, have high reliability, be difficult to steal, etc. one solution to that is to get a marine monitor which is going to set you back about 4k$us. has high brightness and is made for the environment, that's it's high point, it's the "perfect solution" or as close as there is to one. bad points include things such as ... well, it's expensive, you'll worry about someone taking it, you'll worry about it being damaged and you might turn into one of those annoying "don't touch that" people, chances are it's going to get scratched or broken by your man over board pole or when you're loading supplies or during that unexpected storm that drops giant hail stones or something. a marine monitor is going to be a princess and will want to be treated as such, it's just a very expensive piece of deck equipment, one that's exposed to the same sort of abuse that any deck equipment is. OR, you can just get a couple of cheap monitors and shield them from the sun. tons of choices and they are coming down in price all the time. even better you can get used laptops off of ebay for 100$us or 200$us and have some sort of mount made for them. disadvantages are obvious, it's not the perfect display, harder to see if you don't have some kind of sun shield, not as fancy as your perfect marine monitor maybe though i'm sure you could make just as nice a mount for it, etc, etc, i'm sure there are some other disadvantages as well. advantages, price .. since it costs a few hundred $us you can buy TEN of them instead of one marine monitor. in the "big picture" that's better because then you won't worry about it so much, you won't be a "don't touch that" person, you won't care so much that it's getting salt encrusted on it, you won't care so much that it's sitting in the sun all the time. if someone gets onboard and steals it, who cares, you've got another one, and if someone accidentally scratches the face of it with deck equipment it doesn't matter either. true peace of mind, if it breaks, you install another one, just like anything else on deck, it becomes a tool that can break and that you can have spares for, something you can rely on. your significant other has really already proven the point, you've got an expensive Dell laptop you don't want to expose to the elements. if you had a couple of 200$us ebay laptops you wouldn't care, and you'd have spares. just a thought. (i realize fully that there are people for which 4k$us is pocket change and they can afford to swap out 4k$us monitors all day long ... but that's not me! lol) |
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