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18.46%
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What brand of laptop do you use for tuning?

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Old Jun 25, 2010 | 12:51 PM
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I use my laptop only for tuning.

Its a Toshiba Satellite L305
2.2 GHz processor
2GB of RAM, 160 GB of hardrive
15.4 screen
$329 at Bestbuy

I used to have a HP Mini Netbook, but had these problems on it.
-Was way slow, even though was a 1.8GHz processor & 2GB of RAM
-screen resolution didnt go high enough to fit EVOscan charts and timing/fuel map. Also, didnt fit V7 BIGMAPS on the screen.
Old Jun 25, 2010 | 03:15 PM
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Classified make
XP
4 GHZ something dual core Intel
4GB Ram...maybe 8GB...dont remember
160 GB solid state HD
Nvidia 8800
15" LED HD screen
various stickers on case
Old Jun 25, 2010 | 03:18 PM
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standard 400 dollar run of the mill hp best buy laptop.

If its simply for tuning like mine is and various "movie" watching speed and power is not important.
Old Jun 25, 2010 | 03:56 PM
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"MOVIES"....LOL....thats why I have the video card...I dont play videogames on my lappy.
Old Jun 25, 2010 | 08:41 PM
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Originally Posted by JohnBradley
Classified make
XP
4 GHZ something dual core Intel
4GB Ram...maybe 8GB...dont remember
160 GB solid state HD
Nvidia 8800
15" LED HD screen
various stickers on case
Jesus aaron... That thing could crunch calculations for nasa if needed.
Old Jun 25, 2010 | 09:57 PM
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Originally Posted by project_skyline
Jesus aaron... That thing could crunch calculations for nasa if needed.
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Old Jun 25, 2010 | 10:22 PM
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Has my engine sim software on it. I use it for some fairly aggressive maths.
Old Jun 25, 2010 | 10:36 PM
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Logging Laptop:

toshiba satellite A215-S7422
vista
AMD Turion 64 X 2 Dual core processor
160 GB HDD, 2GB of RAM
15.4 screen
Old Jun 25, 2010 | 10:45 PM
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MSI U110
10.1 screen
Intel Atom
1GB RAM
16 hour battery

Basically bottom of the barrel on processor speed and it does well enough. The BIGMAPS are horrible to look at on it though. The only thing I got this laptop for was tuning and then it's light so it's easy to take to school. The 16 hour battery kicks *** too. During school, I charge it like once a week.

On my home PC, I built it for heavy engineering software. 2 years ago, it was as bad as you could get for under $3k. Now it's a fecking dinosaur. Screw being on the cutting edge. I do want to throw a 6-core and 890FX based motherboard in it now though.
Old Jun 26, 2010 | 06:57 AM
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HP Compaq 6910p
Core 2 Duo T7300 / 2GHz
2GB RAM
Windows XP Pro
80GB HD
Old Jun 26, 2010 | 07:09 AM
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Originally Posted by project_skyline
I disagree. My current laptop crashes constantly and only when tuning. Datalogging seems to overload it in some way.

Dell Inspiron 1501
Windows XP SP3
AMD x2 Althlon 1.6ghz
1.37 GB RAM 2GB max


This is better you need actually... Just make sure everything is turned off except evoscan when logging... Programs, wifi, everything.... If it keeps crashing reformat it.

I'm using a macbook pro i7 now, but previously I had a Sony Viao pocket computer that was Intel 1.2 ghz and 1gb ram on xp sp2. Logged quicker than I needed with no problems.

Cheers!
Old Jun 26, 2010 | 12:18 PM
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Dell D420:
XPpro SP3
1.2GB dual-core
1.5GB RAM
12" screen
~2.8lbs
Fits in the glovebox
Old Jun 27, 2010 | 09:58 AM
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I was wondering what you were doing to get Windows 7 to work Properly when using EVOSCAN. I was having issues when I was trying to get it to work(Driver Issues I think). I am in Afghanistan right now but I want to have the stuff I need when I get back.

I was using a Acer Mini Book (Too Slow), Dell Inspiron 9300 (Slow Logging) , and Finally bought a HP Laptop with Windows 7 to speed it all up(Never Got it to Connect and Log Properly). Mellon said that the logs were really slow even though I was only logging minimum data required.

Thanks,

Deak

I am on my Macbook Pro now, I might Install Windows 7 on this in the future.

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Old Jun 28, 2010 | 06:33 AM
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i have a macbook , however i will soon purchase a cheap pc strictly for tuning as i do not want pc/windows near my mac
Old Jun 28, 2010 | 08:13 AM
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Originally Posted by 03whitegsr
MSI U110
10.1 screen
Intel Atom
1GB RAM
16 hour battery

Basically bottom of the barrel on processor speed and it does well enough. The BIGMAPS are horrible to look at on it though. The only thing I got this laptop for was tuning and then it's light so it's easy to take to school. The 16 hour battery kicks *** too. During school, I charge it like once a week.

On my home PC, I built it for heavy engineering software. 2 years ago, it was as bad as you could get for under $3k. Now it's a fecking dinosaur. Screw being on the cutting edge. I do want to throw a 6-core and 890FX based motherboard in it now though.
Pc stuff evolves too dam fast. Mine is 4 years old now and it feels like a 90's IBM to me now haha.

Originally Posted by 4WS Tuning
This is better you need actually... Just make sure everything is turned off except evoscan when logging... Programs, wifi, everything.... If it keeps crashing reformat it.

I'm using a macbook pro i7 now, but previously I had a Sony Viao pocket computer that was Intel 1.2 ghz and 1gb ram on xp sp2. Logged quicker than I needed with no problems.

Cheers!
It seemed to be an issue with corrupted drivers that I tried to fix but it wasn't working. I did reformat and reinstall. Hopefully things are gravy now but I'm not sure yet.

I just hate dells. Worst computers ever made, if I didn't get such a good deal on it I would have never bought it.
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