I did not know where else to post this so here it goes. I am curious to what brand of laptops everyone is using to tune their cars with their aem, haltech, hondata, motec, autronic etc. How much ram, hard drive, and the speed of your processor. I might go with the AEM ems, is their a particular laptop that you recommend for using this system? Just wanting to know before I buy one here soon. Thanks

 

most likely anything over 400mghz with around 128 megs of ram should be perfectly fine. Just make sure to defrag the hard drive so you don't get any "burps" when running misc progs.

 

I've had good luck with dells. They are capable of being worked on, and you can find spare parts for them online.

You actually want a semi OLDER laptop, not the newest newest model, becuase they no come "legacy" and without ports you need (well some of them.)

-PHiZ

 

bought some old dell for 200 bucks, put in a new 40 dollar HD from ebay, and it runs fine

 

I am suprised most of you run older laptops thats cool. so do you think I am wasting my money getting a new Dell hooked up for like a grand?

 

I have a new dell, its an inspiron. it sucks because there is no parrallel port, and that what my eprom programmer needs, but i will just find a usb adapter hopefully. I like having a newer lap bacuse it has no problems running all the programs, datalogger, rom editor, burner software, at the same time.


Rob

 

older laptop would be better because

they're cheap
you're going to end up leaving it in the car
you dont need mad processing power or space
you need legacy ports (new ones only have USB)
it does not need to be small or light
you dont need frills (sound card, video, etc)

 

I am currently trying to buy a dell at a local shop(yes I am lowballing the hell out of him but he deserves it). It has a 20gb hd, 196mb ram, cd rom, floppy, one serial and one usb w/ no operating system. He wants 600 but I know for a fact most places around here sell the exact system with win98 for 400, so I'm gonna be working it.

 

i have a p1 100mhz with 84mo ram and 1go HD it's limit (a lot of waiting between menus) but works, on aem ems so you can go with anything above that

 

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I have Hondata. I use and prefer the IBM thinkpads. The reason being is they are soooo much smaller than most other laptops. Especially some of the Dells I have seen. (Friends purchase).
Mine is a Pentium 3 1Ghz with 512 RAM and 40 gig HD.

 

I also use an IBM Thinkpad t23 1.13G processor and 1GB of ram.. thing runs like a champ.

 

Just courious any software issues with different versions of windows? Most of ya'll running xp?

-Jeff-

 

t22 with XP pro

 

A new laptop will work, but I would try and make sure it has a serial and a parallel port. It makes it 100 times more flexible, for EMS, you probably only NEED a serial port.

If you're going to also use it for work school, and you want a little more power, go for it.

What do you NEED? I run a Dell latitude Celeron 433mhz (I upgraded the processor from a 333, woot) with something like 256-500 meg of ram, 20 gig HD. So you don't need the most powerful system in the world. I use it for my parallel port burner, and serial port romulator.

-PHiZ

 

any laptop in the 400+mhz and 128mb ram will work decently...

I use a 450 with 256...

Only thing I recomend is getting one that supports higer resolutions like 1024x768. It makes viewing the tables alot easier... scrolling sux

 

Depends on what standalone you buy, but in most cases older is fine you dont need no top of the line laptop. I roll with Accel Gen 7 sent me back about 1760.00 but def well worth the money