Laptop advice

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What’s the latest thinking on a QNX laptop? I need something that will
support native QNX development, debugging, and running the occasional test
program, but will not be expected to execute realtime applications. So, I
guess that this means that it must support networking, and it would be nice,
but not essential, if the graphics card worked in accellerated mode. Other
features that would help would be USB, as well as a serial port and a floppy
drive. I realize that the last two are probably a pipe dream these days, but
I might as well ask.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Kevin

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“Kevin Miller” <kevin.miller@transcore.com> wrote in message
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What’s the latest thinking on a QNX laptop? I need something that will
support native QNX development, debugging, and running the occasional test
program, but will not be expected to execute realtime applications. So, I
guess that this means that it must support networking, and it would be
nice, but not essential, if the graphics card worked in accellerated mode.
Other features that would help would be USB, as well as a serial port and
a floppy drive. I realize that the last two are probably a pipe dream
these days, but I might as well ask.

If you don’t care about real-time then why bother with hardware
compability,
use a virtual machine . Of course it’s not as fast, but with a dual-core
machine it’s not too bad. I find that using phindows to access the virtual
machine is more practical (can resize it and works better on dual monitor
setup), but to get decent speed you must have a dual core otherwise phindows
and the vm will fight for the CPU too much.



Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Kevin

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Try DELL Latitude, we have D600, D610, D520 - they work fine, but we use
them only occasionally.

But first consult DELL web page - which chips (network, …) they used for a
given model.

PK

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“Kevin Miller” <> kevin.miller@transcore.com> > wrote in message
news:eueis2$gk1$> 1@inn.qnx.com> …
What’s the latest thinking on a QNX laptop? I need something that will
support native QNX development, debugging, and running the occasional
test program, but will not be expected to execute realtime applications.
So, I guess that this means that it must support networking, and it would
be nice, but not essential, if the graphics card worked in accellerated
mode. Other features that would help would be USB, as well as a serial
port and a floppy drive. I realize that the last two are probably a pipe
dream these days, but I might as well ask.

If you don’t care about real-time then why bother with hardware
compability,
use a virtual machine . Of course it’s not as fast, but with a dual-core
machine it’s not too bad. I find that using phindows to access the
virtual machine is more practical (can resize it and works better on dual
monitor setup), but to get decent speed you must have a dual core
otherwise phindows and the vm will fight for the CPU too much.




Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Kevin

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Kevin Miller <kevin.miller@transcore.com> wrote:

What’s the latest thinking on a QNX laptop? I need something that will
support native QNX development, debugging, and running the occasional test
program, but will not be expected to execute realtime applications. So, I
guess that this means that it must support networking, and it would be nice,
but not essential, if the graphics card worked in accellerated mode. Other
features that would help would be USB, as well as a serial port and a floppy
drive. I realize that the last two are probably a pipe dream these days, but
I might as well ask.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Kevin

The following isn’t an official endorsement.

I’m using a Dell D820 with no issues. This particular one
has a devn-tigon3 network chip, a devg-i830.so graphics chip
and a wireless chipset that may be supported in the future.
It also has a serial port. YMMV

Regards,

-seanb



PCI version = 2.10

Class = Display (VGA)
Vendor ID = 8086h, Intel Corporation
Device ID = 27a2h, Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller
PCI index = 0h
PCI Mem Address = dff00000h enabled
PCI IO Address = eff8h enabled
PCI Mem Address = c0000000h enabled
PCI Mem Address = dfec0000h enabled
PCI Int Pin = INT A
Interrupt line = 11
CPU Interrupt = bh

Class = Display (Other)
Vendor ID = 8086h, Intel Corporation
Device ID = 27a6h, Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller
PCI index = 0h
PCI Mem Address = dff80000h enabled
PCI Int Pin = NC
Interrupt line = 0
CPU Interrupt = 0h

Class = Multimedia (RAM)
Vendor ID = 8086h, Intel Corporation
Device ID = 27d8h, 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller
PCI index = 0h
PCI Mem Address = dfebc000h enabled
PCI Int Pin = INT A
Interrupt line = 10
CPU Interrupt = ah

Class = Mass Storage (IDE)
Vendor ID = 8086h, Intel Corporation
Device ID = 27c4h, 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller IDE
PCI index = 0h
PCI IO Address = 1f0h enabled
PCI IO Address = 3f4h enabled
PCI IO Address = 170h enabled
PCI IO Address = 374h enabled
PCI IO Address = bfa0h enabled
PCI Int Pin = INT B
Interrupt line = 11
CPU Interrupt = bh

Class = Network (Ethernet)
Vendor ID = 14e4h, Broadcom Corporation
Device ID = 1600h, NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
PCI index = 0h
PCI Mem Address = dfcf0000h enabled
PCI Int Pin = INT A
Interrupt line = 5
CPU Interrupt = 5h

Class = Network (Other)
Vendor ID = 8086h, Intel Corporation
Device ID = 4222h, PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
PCI index = 0h
PCI Mem Address = dfdff000h enabled
PCI Int Pin = INT A
Interrupt line = 11
CPU Interrupt = bh