On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:34:04 -0400, Jack Erbes
wrote:

When you tot up the cost of a Toughbook laptop and one of the wireless
displays, you are getting into the cost range of one of the better
marine grade systems like the Raymarines.

Yes. I already have a pretty good Furuno system integrated into a 10
inch display with excellent daytime brightness and good night time
dimming. I use a laptop PC as a back up chart plotter because I
prefer the look of raster charts when in unfamiliar areas, and also
because the Maptech software has superior route planning and tracking.
A remote, portable, weather proof display would allow me to keep the
laptop in a dry secure location at the lower helm, and also might be
useful on a small runabout.