I suppose if one were cheap enough it might be worth doing that but a lot of the Kickr Cores on
eBay seem to be going for too near the new price unless faulty.
Haven't looked around for a while, must be also the time of year - everyone looking for one with it getting colder. Makes sense.
I was thinking more in terms of just seeing if my laptop or tablet could cope with the graphics rather than what it felt like riding. I don't have any way of connecting my dumb trainer to Zwift at the mo' but I'd like to follow the other riders round and see how the tech coped. If the laptop worked well I might end up dedicating it to this task and upgrading to a newer one for general use. (The old machine is starting to show its age now.)
I
think if you start a Zwift trial, which used to be a week, it starts after you complete your first ride. Wouldn't expect spectating to count. Yes, you can get it installed and just watch.
Laptop I'm using is a Pentium Silver 1.1GHz and 8GB ram with some Intel integrated graphics. Zwift doesn't need much.
I think I can make enough space in the corner of my bedroom to squeeze the TV in between the radiator and the adjacent wall. I agree about looking up... I hate the way that people mount TVs high up on chimney breasts above mantelpieces. I get a stiff neck in minutes trying to watch them. I would mount my turbo TV on the wall so I was looking down towards it.
Spot on.
I think £399 for a new Victory trainer sounds like a pretty good price. Just a pity about the delay in getting one.
My laptop is probably better than your old budget one, so maybe it would be ok for Zwifting. I could start off using it and see how I got on. If it were powerful enough but I wanted a bigger screen then I always could plug its HDMI output into the TV.
Don't think there's much difference between trainers. It's a reasonable price.
Yeah, I just plug in my budget laptop to an old screen via HDMI. Works well.
And don't forget room for fans, as others noted.
