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Re: What operating system do you use on your driver station?
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Originally Posted by MrTechCenter
We had to use a MacBook Pro as a Driver Station at one of our offseason competitions, but it had Windows 7 installed on it via Bootcamp. It worked perfectly fine. We now use an Ultrabook with Windows 8 and it's awful.
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I want to underscore what Harsharan is saying here.
The Ultrabook works fine, BUT, it has a touch screen. If you don't know EXACTLY what you are doing, it's a disaster!
For example: We ran hot goal detection on the laptop. This allowed us to fine tune the detection to changing lighting condition right before the start of every match. It worked really well. That is, until the FTA was looking at our DS right before a match and reached up to point at the screen and made contact! It threw our detection calibration right out the window. Let's just say, we missed the hot goal that match.
The issue is that a live touch screen in a competition environment might not be a good idea.
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