Guys can you give me a few name brands and models to look for? I want to use the laptop for my hondata 4b and also for playing games and school work...i'm thinking of getting a laptop from ebay....

 

i have a sony vio and i love it...highly reccomend it..actually got it, b/c i plan on maybe doing aem or hondata..not sure yet..but yeah i like it

 

"dude i just got a Dell"
Seriously just bought myself a dell laptop. Just the basics though. If I want to play games I'll use my pc or get a xbox or ps2. Its just 40 bucks a month. I plan on getting the hondata for my project and playing around with the datalog function.

 

If you're thinking of buying a laptop for games as well, definitely get something as fast w/good video.

Look for at least a Geforce2/4 2Go, or Radeon 7500. Better yet would be a
Radeon 9000.

Dells are rock solid as are Compaq laptops. Don't buy HPs (flimsy). Alienware
for all out power.

 

Thanks guys for the input..i'll look around for good prices on the net somewhere. Any suggestions to where i can get a good deal on a laptop?

 

If i were to purchase a laptop I would go with the SONY. Dell laptops have alot of problems not very reliable, dell desktops are good though

 

Do you guys realize that alot of Standalones wont work with Windows? and many freak out with a processor any faster than like 300mhz.

For tuning, you want like 300mhz, DOS\Windows 98

Suprdave

 

Are you serious? I guess i'm just going to go with the free lap top my friend is going to give me from work for tuning...i still want a laptop for school work and games though...

 

I believe he is looking for a laptop for his Hondata, which uses Windows, and benefits from having a faster laptop and Windows 2k/XP. But good info to know for people getting other standalones...

 

Like mentioned above, that might be the case for some of the older standalones. Hondata works fairly well on older notebooks (I've used something as slow as a Pentium 133). You really need something fast for AEM though, it's a huge resource hog.

 

ok i got it now thanks for clearing it up

 

http://www.truedataproducts.com is a good place to find some.