I have been going back and forth trying to decide which one I like the best. So far SeaClear is in the lead for speed and ease of use. OpenCPN can lock the machine up for some time if you get too many functions buffered (i.e. press too many keys before it completes the last action). OTOH OpenCPN has far superior AIS functionality with CPA alarms and diagrams plus tides and currents. I may get a faster - but still old - ThinkPad to run OpenCPN better. On the 300 MHz hardware the ENC charts are totally unusable. I don't really like them anyway, the raster charts look WAY better to me.
Joe Della Barba Coquina C&C 35 MK I www.dellabarba.com<http://www.dellabarba.com> CRYC From: cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Russ & Melody Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 9:19 PM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Stus-List old laptops Hi Joe, Why do you have SeaClear and OpenCPN on the same machine? (I do too but my reason is laziness, in not uninstalling SeaClear after I started using OpenCPN.) I keep an old Dell with 'doze 98 in a locker as the "backup". It does fine with Nobeltec vr 4.. and a serial connection to a Garmin 126 Cheers, Russ Sweet 35 mk-1 east Vancouver Island (on the left of Canada) At 06:42 AM 24/09/2012, you wrote: Content-Language: en-US Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_000_1073606396712942AEE54D9A960E45A713793F2AC5HQMB07baadssa_" I use the 600s. They are 300 MHz machines that run Windows 98 fine and XP a little slow. They are stripped down - no extra software, no office, no anti-virus, no games, no movies, no internet connection. They do navigation plus PSK31 (ham radio) and nothing else. I have one hard drive with 98 and SeaClear and another one with XP and SeaClear+OpenCPN. I believe I sold one to someone on this list and it sat in Canadian customs for weeks. Joe Della Barba - Coquina. From: cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com<mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com> [ mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Russ & Melody Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 11:38 PM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com<mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Subject: Re: Stus-List NMEA 0183 Ver.1.5 to 3.0 What do you mean by "old"? My boat machine is a Thinkpad T-42 and travels in a Pelican case. It was the carbon fibre gear to land on the race boat :) Interesting, the second piece of carbon fibre gear to come onto the race boat was the skipper's knee brace! Cheers, Russ Sweet 35 mk-1 east Vancouver Island At 12:08 PM 21/09/2012, you wrote: Content-Language: en-US Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_000_1073606396712942AEE54D9A960E45A713793F2A34HQMB07baadssa_" I keep old IBM ThinkPads around for boat duty ;) Joe Della Barba From: cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com<mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com> [ <mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com> mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Frederick G Street Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 2:52 PM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com<mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Subject: Re: Stus-List NMEA 0183 Ver.1.5 to 3.0 Really, when was the last time anyone saw a new laptop with a serial port? :^) Although I am a dyed-in-the-wool Mac guy, I keep an ancient HP/Compaq Windows XP machine around just because it has a real serial port on it... Fred Street -- Minneapolis S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- on the hard in Bayfield, WI :^( On Sep 21, 2012, at 1:17 PM, Della Barba, Joe wrote: Have you tried a laptop? Use the serial port and read the data directly to see what you have got. _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com<http://www.cncphotoalbum.com/> CnC-List@cnc-list.com<mailto:CnC-List@cnc-list.com> _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com<http://www.cncphotoalbum.com/> CnC-List@cnc-list.com<mailto:CnC-List@cnc-list.com>
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