WKO+ on a netbook
Hey folks,
I think it's just a matter of time before my 2.75yr MacBook needs to be replaced. The only Windows tool I use on it is WKO+. I also see a need to carry a laptop of some form if I decide to go on extended moto trips, etc, so I can continue to make you folks think I'm actually working at home when in fact I'm posting to the forum from a netbook + wifi card beside a campground in BFE...soo....
When I get a new Mac I'm thinking about picking up a stoopid cheap netbook and using that as my dedicated WKO+ plaform.
Any issues with this? Anything I should know?
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Should be fine as long as it runs Windows and has USB.
Purchased a netbook specifically for WKO, as the Windows side of MAC was painfully slow. Netbook works like a charm!!
Colleen, awesome! Any idea on the turnaround to recieve the gift card? In a perfect world it happens most ricky tick so I'm only out a computer for a couple days vs gotta buy a new Mac then wait for a gift card that's only good for getting more stuff...which I don't need. I'd rather apply the dough to the purchase of the new Mac.
Rich, I haven't done this yet and I'm in the same boat as you. I was looking at their web page and came across the link. Sorry to not be more helpful.
Ok, thanks. I'm sure Joanne will find a use for the gift card
Mike
looks like some stripped down functions. I'd love a web version if it worked as well as the PC version
I doubled the memory to 2GB immediately and it has the Atom N280 processor. I think I paid $369 plus the extra memory. I use it 95% of the time now and only bother with my Dell laptop if I need to do some basic video editing. And the battery lasts a good 8 hours.
1) Maybe I've configured it poorly under VMWare, but the whole Windows thing takes FOREVER to boot up and get going. But once it does, and once the program is up and running, it's fine enough. (Any troubleshooting?)
2) My incremental backup software only sees all the Windows stuff as a single file. As a result, I get a daily incremental backup of my whole Windows system. Grrr.
Because of these issues, I looked into Raceday again. The bike statistics (TSS, VI, etc) come out virtually identical to WKO, but the run ones do not. They have different names, but it's no big deal to translate. Some of the handy graphs are not produced (e.g., cadence pie chart, power histogram). These are easily enough made in another graphing program in just a couple minutes, but that's a little inconvenient. The PMC-equivalent chart in Raceday looks like the one WKO produces, but the whole point of Raceday is to customize that PMC chart....however, as has been pointed out in many places, no one has enough test data to get the fits right, so that customization function is useless to me. Finally, all the data are stored in a single database file. So, while you don't have an incremental database making a copy of your whole operating system every day, it does copy all of the data every day.
I will confess the whole thing frustrates me. I'd be willing to pop for a Mac version of WKO, but they have now announced that "it won't be available in the next six months" (paraphrasing, from a Wattage post). I do take that, however, as hope that it may come out some day.