Can a "household" PC survive the rigors of RV travel?
Old Snipe said
04:45 PM May 9, 2007
I have a nice, relatively new PC and a laptop. Of course the laptop is "born" to travel on the road, but can a PC survive the jolts, shakes an bumps of RV travel?
I have the space for the PC, but would hate to shake it apart while traveling in my MH.
What works for you?
Best Regards!
-- Edited by Old Snipe at 17:58, 2007-05-09
REX OR MARY said
09:51 PM May 9, 2007
We used a regular Gateway PC for many years fulltiming. The tower sat on the floor between the wall and the table leg of our booth type dinette. We used a wireless mouse, wireless keyboard, and flat screen monitor which sat on the table. While traveling we stored the flat screen packed away in it's original carton with Styrofoam, however the tower sat wedged between the pole and the wall and traveled just fine. We are now using laptops because the Gateway just got too old and slow.
Sandra said
08:08 AM May 11, 2007
We travel with two laptops and a desktop and haven't had any problems with any of them in 2 3/4 years.
mcw50 said
08:59 PM May 11, 2007
We had a regular PC when we first started full-timing and it did fine...the tower under the dinette table with Velcro attached to the wall. It did fine. We didn't really have a good place for the monitor (pre-flat screen days) and we wedged it on the bench with half a dozen small pillows. It finally died after its second fall to the floor when the coach was making a turn. By then we were ready to replace it with a lap top. We don't share well so we each have our own, and have replaced them each twice now in 7 years just because we want faster and bigger processors and newer technology.
Mary
mikeway said
10:51 AM May 15, 2007
About the only things you gain from a desktop are limited upgradeability and some times a larger ( marginally ) monitor screen.
The amount of RAM in a laptop is often maxxed at a lower level than a desktop. I know that I am replacing my 1 GIG of memory with at least 2 GIG soon and maybe 4. Monitors are easily add on to a laptop, my dream is an Apple Cinema size screen. I have a portable hard drive that triples the built in drive. I have a keyboard and mouse stored in the coach if I need one. I am thinking of adding a graphics tablet for photo and graphics editing.
I use to build my own desktops, but find I don't need one anymore. My wife is content with her iBook and I am pleased with my MacBook Pro.
Mike
Thom said
08:04 AM May 17, 2007
We travel with 2 Dell workstations and 2 Dell laptops, but we tend to go through withdrawal without an active internet connection whether we need it or not and a portable satelite internet dish solved that.
I have the space for the PC, but would hate to shake it apart while traveling in my MH.
What works for you?
Best Regards!
-- Edited by Old Snipe at 17:58, 2007-05-09
We used a regular Gateway PC for many years fulltiming. The tower sat on the floor between the wall and the table leg of our booth type dinette. We used a wireless mouse, wireless keyboard, and flat screen monitor which sat on the table. While traveling we stored the flat screen packed away in it's original carton with Styrofoam, however the tower sat wedged between the pole and the wall and traveled just fine. We are now using laptops because the Gateway just got too old and slow.
Mary
The amount of RAM in a laptop is often maxxed at a lower level than a desktop. I know that I am replacing my 1 GIG of memory with at least 2 GIG soon and maybe 4. Monitors are easily add on to a laptop, my dream is an Apple Cinema size screen. I have a portable hard drive that triples the built in drive. I have a keyboard and mouse stored in the coach if I need one. I am thinking of adding a graphics tablet for photo and graphics editing.
I use to build my own desktops, but find I don't need one anymore. My wife is content with her iBook and I am pleased with my MacBook Pro.
Mike