Low cost Netbooks for scouting

[Dale]

If we had to recharge the netbooks at lunch that would be fine, of course. I was just hoping to avoid it for the first couple of years until the batteries age. Since we won't be able to use WiFi per the FIRST rules, just hard-wired ethernet, and have minimal hard drive use, maybe we'll get through a day in the beginning. We'll see.

Depending on the game, sharing one netbook between two people might be a dandy idea. Students could capture the objective data on scratch paper and then hand the netbook back and forth to enter that and subjective notes between matches. We're trying for live data here so that by the time the next match is run, we've enetered the previous one.

Certainly some students will have iPhones and the like, it's just I don't want our scouting team to be restricted to only those students. They all have laptops which they can bring (our school requires them) it's just some of their battery times are measured in minutes, not hours.