On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 2:14:51 PM UTC-5, Cookie wrote:
Dude! You missed my point completely. One poster was P'd off because his kobo was a dud. Me and my club members have maybe 12 or so KOBO's among us. We've had a few duds....some faded screens some bad USB connectors...some trouble with power supplies/ batteries etc.


But I still use the KOBO...and so do the rest of them...mine has worked perfectly for a couple of years...the ones in our club gliders are working fine.


For me, Tophat on KOBO is the ONLY way to go!


Cookie




On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 1:08:25 PM UTC-5, Dan Marotta wrote:
If you want 100% reliability guaranteed...don't use a kobo, or XC soar or top hat. The hardware, software, and installations are all "experimental" and subject to "issues".

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Cookie




Following that logic, should we not fly "experimental" gliders?*
I've been using one of those cheap, experimental hardware platforms
with experimental software (XCSoar) for years without as many
"issues" as I read about regarding the higher priced solutions.



The so-called experimental hardware was created, you will recall,
with the entire world as a market, not just a hand full of glider
pilots.* I would, therefore, expect its reliability to be
considerably higher.



YMMV


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Dan, 5J

I have a brand new Kobo mini still in a box (black), if anyone is interested contact by private message.