What's your toughbook major work?

Hi guys,
I wonder some of you guys maybe own a or some toughbook for a long time or short, but really interesting what's the major jobs of yout toughbook. Some guys use for vehicle diagnoisis, some use for navigation, some for work for the job or just regular laptop (enterainment, broswer the web, text, spreadsheet, graphic .. and so on)

 

I use it for everthing but mostly i use mine in my truck/ car for GPS.

 

I use them for GPS navigation
I use them for research on internet.
I use the to repair other Toughbooks
I use them to edit and post photos.
I use them at work for document creation

Mainly I seem to use them to buy other Toughbook parts. It never ends.

 

@Shawn U R a toughbook junkie! i like that!

 

I use mine for pretty much everything, vehicle work to homework and it's also my second computer at work. It's quite the conversation piece there, usually the questions are various forms of "where did you get that" and "how do I get one?"

 

At work we use them on all our forklifts (21) for inventory management

 

i use my '30 with gps as an adjunct to the nav equipment in the plane .
(came in handy during those canadian fires ... almost zero visibility above 1500 feet)
it's great for watching netflix in my workshop .

 

it can sure that is almost everyone use GPS for navigation of kinds of that.

I watch so much threads and dozens of user still use the couple gen older versions toughbook. Sure the one of the reasons is the quality, and another reasons is include the high price of the new model ? Or just most user just use toughbook to one or two purpose(just a few or single software) like navigation or broswer. You know, less software make it run low hardware requirement!

 

i like my '30 because i can actually stand on it .

 

@CWB32 use for pillow is nice too!

 

You can get a lot of use from an older Toughbook by using Linux..
Linux does not have much for navigation. Otherwise it works very nice on an older Toughbook.

 

oh, yeah! I am Linux user too. but just not much people use Linux for major computer, I mean more linux user will have a windows or Mac. But it maybe relate to what's your work(so much software only work for Windows ever Mac). My situation is “China”, almost all the services of goverment website design for IE, and 99.9% e-bank services only work in Windows, damn it! So I love Linux, just have no choice to without Windows.

 

Oh, it bring me a idea, just get more HD caddy and HD.It make toughbook easy and fast to switch different OS !

 

I have 2 HDD caddies also.

 

I have spares for my 19, 30, 52 and 53 and these spares have saved me many times.

 

Broadcast engineering and field journalism work.

 

heh ...
workin' both sides of the glass ?
i didn't much care for being on the south side of the mic air gap ...
my thing was the whole of the air chain right to the top of the towers .

 

Wow Larry...I am surprised. You being full of hot air and all.

 

gee ... thanks ... i think .

i did my "rag chewing" on 160 and 80 meters with a johnson desk kilowatt , modded to meet broadcast AM specs (but with only 5kc audio bandwidth as per fcc rules) .

 

just poking the bear...
So you are an actual celebrity.

I never realized you could do AM "commercial" broadcasting with converted HAM equipment..

 

nnnoooo ...
"modded to meet broadcast AM specs"
160 and 80 meters are amateur radio bands .
many was the night that i would sit and chew the fat for hours with guys all over the US ... and a couple of canadian and mexican stations .
sometimes the conditions were good ... sometimes not .
the AM guys are a small number (overall) ... especially with tube gear .

technically , one could use converted amateur equipment for use on the AM commercial broadcast band , however , it would have to be inspected and "proofed" by the fcc to meet the AMBCB standards ...
prohibitively expensive

many guys use old tube AM BCB transmitters converted to run on 160 meters ...
a collins transmitter that i worked on for several years was (eventually) sold to a ham ... he put it on 160 ... sounded great ...
it used 4 ea 5-500 tubes ...
two for generating over 500 watts of class "AB1" audio (push-pull) and two for the RF side (parallel) ... plate modulation .
he was a retired broadcast engineer ... i forget his name and call .

 

I am planning of using it as a ground station for my drones (SAR) when I have to set it up in remote locations.

 

I first became a user of the TB brand in the Marines and then the Secret Service. I have since retired from those fields. My real passion in life is cars and trucks. Most notable is working on them. I own an automotive shop and use them extensively in this field.

 

Marines and Secret Service, Awesome!

 

Build and maintain cell towers predominantly for AT&T. Use for GPS in my truck, cataloging photos, company paperwork, jukebox, and everything in between. I do not leave home without it. I prefer it over my desktop...at a fraction of the price! I own a handful of different TB's.

 

A better question: Why do you still have a desktop?

My main users:
CF-53 JU SSD quick communications via forum and email.
CF-31 JE Linux based mapping.
CF-30 KT W7 or Linux (swap drives) W7 radio progamming mobile and hand-held/ mapping.
CF-27 DOS based Radio Programming for older hand held radios.

 

My main users"
CF-52 GUN SSD daily internet e-mails, citrix to company servers, burning Linux CD's and DVD's, I like the little red led's alot (thank you Sadlmkr)
CF-28, CF-29, CF-30 when testing different Linux Debian Distributions

 

Cleve...PM sent

 

I use mine as an Investigator and have carried one overseas, twice, starting with my CF-29 that I built up with the help of the fine folks here.

 

I use it for everything that I'd use my home desktop for, like web surfing, email, etc. I have a couple of different drives that I swap in and out of my CF-31W depending on what I want to use it for. I have a drive set up for radio programming, a drive set up for general Internet use, including network hardware management, and a drive for experimentation and hardware/software/firmware integration on Arduinos and stuff like that. I have a bunch of surplussed CF-29's that I have loaded up with XP for basic web surfing and email for customers when I'm deployed out to a fire incident, so the crews can check email if they don't have a phone or computer of their own.

 

I use my CF-30 mainly for data logging and editing the software in the EEPROM of the ECM of my truck. I just got an EEPROM emulator so now I can use the CF-30 in place of the EEPROM and tune on the fly.

I also use it for auto diagnosis.

I also occasionally use it to surf the net and what not, but nothing memory intensive.

 

I turn CF-52G's&P's into diesel diagnostic laptops. Mostly the P's now with Win7 x86, ssd, 8GB ram.

 

Hi all I use mine for data logging, OBD2 diagnosing and tuning automotive, stellar navigation, PYTHON programming, USB oscilloscope among others………………J