Thread: Any ideas on a new computer for our driver station?
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Ben Wolsieffer Ben Wolsieffer is offline
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Re: Any ideas on a new computer for our driver station?
The driver station runs fine on Windows 8.1. We used an ASUS laptop running 8.1 last year in competition without any problems.

You don't need a $1000 computer, even for vision processing. I believe ours was around $500 and it has an i5. I would recommend getting an SSD, because it will be bouncing around while its being carried (and also when a robot slams full speed into the plexi). Even if the computer does not have four USB ports, you can always use a hub.
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