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Which cheapest laptop can I used with the tactrix 2.0 and tuning advice

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Old Mar 12, 2016, 05:46 AM
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Cool Which cheapest laptop can I used with the tactrix 2.0 and tuning advice

Hi fellow member tuner.
I'm a new tuner and hoping I can get some advice.

So I have decided to learn how to tune my Evo 8 myself.
But first, which laptop would you guys recommend to used to tune my stock ecu with the tactrix 2.0 version?
I wanted something small not a big laptop and MOST important Cheapest!!!!
If you can please tell me a brand and also model number. Also where and how much too would be nice.

Let me get the laptop first and I will ask for advice on basic tuning how-to.

Thank you in advance !��������������

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Old Mar 14, 2016, 10:03 AM
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i use a $90 windows stream 7 tablet with a wireless mouse.
it works fine.
I recommend looking into the openport 2.0 standalone logging though. i just switched to that and it logs much more data in the same amount of time compared the the tablet. the tablet didnt seem to be able to keep up so i had dead spots in logs and it was almost at the most inopportune times, like 1/3 of my wot pull would be missing.
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Any Windows laptop running XP or newer should work.

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I use a Lenovo Thinkpad T43 that I bought for $40. I put a new battery and a 1gb stick of ram in it. Works great now.
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Any other laptop that is less than $250 that will work on the 2.0 tactrix?
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I would say any with at least Windows 7 (my fav) but I use a Mac with boot camp
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Ok kool. Good to know


Thanks
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