looking for a new laptop gps anyone?
I was going to look for a new laptop and get off the tablet I mostly use now, Going full time in the near future makes keeping the desktop unit impractical. With Amazon, Bestbuy and Helmart all hold...
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My setup
1. A laptop with a Solid State Drive SSD (for speed) plus a
HD Docking Station Plugable USB 3.0 docking station with a number of large SATA hard drives for backup and to store large file like movies and books that I have downloaded. I also have a WD Passport portable drive that I can copy the movies to -- to watch using the USB port on my TV.
2. An old Garmin Streetpilot 2720 GPS -- love it. You can find one on eBay for less than $50.00. You may need to do some research on Google on how to load an up-to-date maps since the new maps are too large for the SP2720. But old out of date maps work well.
3. Garmin's free BaseCamp program install on the Laptop to plan the trips. BaseCamp is the best planning software I have found. The only problem is you MUST upload to a Garmin GPS. I then upload the planned trips to the SP2720.
I know my setup is somewhat complicated, but when I started fulltiming in 2006 (before the day of smartphone and GPS in TVs) it was very simple. My children say I am "crazy" and they use Google Maps and smart phones for all their GPS.
1. A laptop with a Solid State Drive SSD (for speed) plus a
HD Docking Station Plugable USB 3.0 docking station with a number of large SATA hard drives for backup and to store large file like movies and books that I have downloaded. I also have a WD Passport portable drive that I can copy the movies to -- to watch using the USB port on my TV.
2. An old Garmin Streetpilot 2720 GPS -- love it. You can find one on eBay for less than $50.00. You may need to do some research on Google on how to load an up-to-date maps since the new maps are too large for the SP2720. But old out of date maps work well.
3. Garmin's free BaseCamp program install on the Laptop to plan the trips. BaseCamp is the best planning software I have found. The only problem is you MUST upload to a Garmin GPS. I then upload the planned trips to the SP2720.
I know my setup is somewhat complicated, but when I started fulltiming in 2006 (before the day of smartphone and GPS in TVs) it was very simple. My children say I am "crazy" and they use Google Maps and smart phones for all their GPS.
