What are the recomended specs for a laptop computer to run Mitsulogger with no hangups or lost data? I'm thinking of buying one from a friand and need to know if it's good enough.

Thanks.

 

anything that will run xp should be more than enough.

excel is a bonus but not needed

 

Hey, that was quick. Thanks.

And from Bellevue too. Small world.

What can you use excell for? Sorry for the newbish questions.

 

Hi

Win 2k is just fine as well, excel is used to display the logger data, I use open office, just as good and it free.

MB

 

Thanks for all the good info guys. great help to me.

 

^^ just don't go to cheap and slow. Some of the older slower laptops are going to log ridiculously slowly if you decide to log too many variables.

Also be careful with laptops that have those hard drive protection schemes (such as IBM). When you are driving hard and they get a good bump the HDD might lock and there goes your logs

 

Thanks for the info. How about this?

Intel Celeron M 420(1.60GHz)
80GB HDD
512MB DDR2
533 mhz fsb
Windows Vista Home Basic
DVD/CD-RW Combo

i should upgrade it to 1gig of RAM.

 

That looks pretty good to me. Upgrading the ram would be good especially with Vista. I will let some of the other people who log with Vista state if they have problems with it or not. I don't run it on my logging machine so can't say.

Vista Home Basic is pretty useless...might want to get Home Premium if you plan to do other useful things with the laptop .

My logging machine is a 2GHZ laptop, 1GB ram and 40GB HDD and that works just fine for me with XP MCE.

 

I won't be using it for anything, but tuning and maybe playing music. Thanks codgi.

 

or you can go the other route.
I picked up an old IMB thinkpad someone put XP on.(craigs list) takes a few minutes to fire up but works well enough for its purpose.
one added benefit of the old laptops is they sometimes have a serial port, and they don't hurt quite as bad when you drop them.

 

I've had good results on IBM laptops as slow as 350mhz, But I would recommend getting the best you can afford, nowadays its not unheard of to find a really nice new or used laptop for $600 when you may end up spending $300-500 for a used old one.

 

As long as it runs it should be able to log fine.


Running personally my old college laptop:

1.5GHZ celeron (oh yeah feel the powah)
768mb ram (Not that i use it now :P)
40gb disk
by far the crappiest intel internal graphics card with 16mb you've ever seen
and a battery that lasts about an hour

I have an inverter so the battery thing isn't a big deal to me.

 

Yeah, I do think by far the biggest factor for a laptop is battery life. Although you will have no problem if you use the cigarette lighter to power your laptop, you really don't want to do that when your reflashing.

 

I use an IBM Thinkpad and it works just fine. Battery life is definitely a major factor to consider.

 

Your lucking out...I just converted my regular home one to do double duty. Maybe sometime next year I will get a new home laptop and then this can be used for logging only...now if only I could use the one from work for logging .