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Projects place => Classifieds => Wanted => Topic started by: M4wdFab on December 09, 2020, 04:47:21 PM

Title: older laptop or tablet
Post by: M4wdFab on December 09, 2020, 04:47:21 PM

looking for a cheap to free older laptop or tablet to dedicated to PCMhammer / tuner pro


must have wifi/bluetooth

Title: Re: older laptop or tablet
Post by: M4wdFab on December 27, 2020, 01:22:29 PM

grabbed a free HP G60 from my mom, its was a vista machine that has Win7 on it now.  how to i make bluetooth work?  does it not have it?

Title: Re: older laptop or tablet
Post by: mr.mindless on December 27, 2020, 01:24:42 PM

Win7 is dead. Be careful if it’s online, it’s a year out of patched.

Device manager should show if it has Bluetooth and should show unknown device if it’s missing drivers.

Title: Re: older laptop or tablet
Post by: M4wdFab on December 27, 2020, 02:12:06 PM

thanks IT Karen

Title: Re: older laptop or tablet
Post by: M4wdFab on December 28, 2020, 11:47:52 AM

i just dont understand the mechanics of bluetooth if its just a wifi thing or a specific thing

when you search on the computer i find nothing.  DM shows this

Title: Re: older laptop or tablet
Post by: mr.mindless on December 28, 2020, 12:22:02 PM

wifi and bluetooth aren't the same.

often handled by same chipset on the hardware side, but that doesn't matter.

I think you don't have BT on there.

I was surprised that our desktop machines at work apparently don't generally have BT either -  I thought they would, but I had to specifically hit a laptop to get an example for ya

Title: Re: older laptop or tablet
Post by: M4wdFab on December 28, 2020, 12:31:03 PM

thats what i was thinking.  ill snag a usb bluetooth adaptor for a couple bucks to try it that way instead of sourcing a new machine.  this one should be more than enough for shop duty and seems to run fine and being cleaned up a bit. 

Title: Re: older laptop or tablet
Post by: mr.mindless on December 28, 2020, 12:33:57 PM

nice!

Title: Re: older laptop or tablet
Post by: M on December 28, 2020, 12:45:45 PM

what mindless says.   usb bt will work in this case.

Title: Re: older laptop or tablet
Post by: mr.mindless on December 28, 2020, 01:03:59 PM

I have a usb WiFi network interface but no blutoot.

Title: Re: older laptop or tablet
Post by: M4wdFab on December 30, 2020, 04:54:36 PM

7$ to amazon and delevered a USB thingy plugged and and loaded off a cd works great! 

This machine has a cd drive lol