I am looking to slowly get into tuning my evo and just wondering how nice of a laptop I will need to use the ecu flash / evo scan. Will I need XP? or will windows 98 work? also how much ram? space to save? Any input is appreciated. Thanks

 

xp is what you need.

ram 512mb +
cpu as fast as possible, but 1ghz would be fine

evoscan/ecuflash/logs take MAX of 2gb

if I was just building a tuning laptop then 20gb would be HEAPS (xp + excel + tuning tools + log space)

 

Would any of these little netbooks work well for just a "tuning computer"? All I want to have on it is service manuals, ecuflash, evoscan, excel, etc...

 

i was thinkin one of those hp minis or the mini asus since we sell em at bestbuy, but i didnt know if it was good enough...

 

I've been eyeing a netbook as well. I want something that can log while I'm on the track, which would ideally fit in the glovebox.

 

i just bought a dell studio 15. dual cor 2.4gig possessor, 4 gig ram, 500gig hard drive, 512 vid card, 3 high speed usb-2 ports. i hope its enough. it wont be here till aug 10th

 

I've been using my Asus EEE PC 701 4G for two weeks now and it perfect! Weighs less than 2 pounds, has Windows XP on it (I trimmed it down using nLite and removed the paging system), and upgraded the RAM to 2 GBs. It only has solid state (flash) memory, so no worries about killing a hard drive due to my stiffer suspension. I have ECUFlash and EVOScan on it with Open Office. I use a 16 GB SD card to hold all my data logs and ROMs. When I take it inside after a logged run for example, I hook up a wireless keyboard and mouse and a 19" flat panel monitor. I paid $199 shipped for it 6 months ago. I'd highly recommend it!

 

I'm using an old Toshiba.

466mhz Celeron.
386 mb ram (IIRC)
6gb hard drive.

It gets slow when trying to edit things in ecuflash while logging but if I'm not trying to do both at once it is fast enough.

 

Where did you get that for 199 shipped?

 

Celeron 1,4Ghz 512mb ram 40gb HDD here, works without issues.

(Old DELL Latitude D505)

 

A netbook is a great tuning computer. I got my Dell mini from bestbuy for 329+tax. All netbooks come with Xp which makes life easier then having vista on your tuning computer. I got the 16G solid state drive.

 

Got it from Newegg.com as a newsletter sale item. It was $249 with a $50 off coupon code and free shipping

 

Nice, I was looking at these and wasn't too sure if it would be enough

I will have to keep my eye on new egg then!

 

I've got an old HP, 1.6G single core, under 1G of RAM, XP Home, works great.

It's lasted through about 6 years of tuning. Can't tell you how many times its been launched off the passenger's seat onto the floor. 12kg/mm springs don't seem to bother it a bit.

I don't want to go to netbook just because my tuning laptop has a serial port on it. No messing with USB adapters. It also has a decent sized screen, quite nice for viewing logs.

 

I am not sure so much on the speed but the one thing that always made me mad is terrible battery life on my computer. I use a damn 17" display though.

I have 2G of ram and a 1.76G processor.