On 2 June 2010 20:59, Eraina and Richard jenkins <richardvk...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have in mind a project that involves making my old laptop into a > large-screen GPS. Maybe someone on this list can refer me to where > this has been mentioned before. My OS of choice is linux, but the > laptop will still run winXP, and there will be no continuing internet > connection so I am prepared to use the winXP side of things.
You might be better off getting an eeePC or similar instead of trying to using an old laptop, most laptops draw a fair amount of power, the 7" eeePC I grabbed only uses 6W at peak and it's 12v, most laptops are 18 or 19v and require a converter. As for software, navit seems ok, could be better, but you can load all of Australia in about 70M of data. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
