Alright. Lets get all the input we can in here from all the tuners DIY and professional please.

Post what kinda laptop brand and model you have with the operating system.
Optional: Hardware specs IE: processor and RAM amount

Please note if you have any issues with your computer while tuning.

Thanks!

 

Dell M2400
XP pro service pack 3
2.9 GHZ Dual core pro
4GB Ram
500 GB Hard drive
1 GB dedicated graphics card
14" LED HD screen

Excellent laptop, with great battery, speed and back light keyboard

 

I think computer does not matter... I guess that ECU tuning is not the computer 's primary use for most of us...
If you want it just to tune your car, get the cheapest one, go XP SP2, avoid antivirus, web tools bar & plugins, and just install Ecu flash, Evoscan and Excel... it will make it!!!

 

I have the HP mini 1000 series. Yes it is the older one. I bought it when they first came out. Has 2 USB ports, so that is everything I need. I dont know much about it other than it is 17GB HD w/ a 9.5" screen. This is my TUNING laptop only.

 

Acer Aspire 6930G.

Specs:
16" widescreen (not the best when you're in the car, lol)
GeForce 9600M GS
Core 2 Duo E6300 IIRC
4 gigs RAM
Windows 7

Not only used for tuning, I use it to complete school projects at the last second, for example.

 

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

 

My last tuning device was a 800MHz Pentium III tablet made by Toshiba running Windows 2000. The only reason I don't still use it is because of the screen size (800x600 is tough to work with).

My wife has your exact laptop, and I've never had a problem using it in a pinch. You have a software issue, from the sounds of it, perhaps a problem with the FTDI driver or a mismatch between driver and libraries. Welcome to Windows.

I'll echo Vigman's post: if it's a dedicated tuning laptop, buy based on price and form-factor (netbooks can be particularly nice, as they can usually fit in the glove box).

 

For a few years I used a Sony Vaio that is about 5 or 6 years old and just recently I installed windows on my mac and have been using it ever since. It works really well especially at night and can turn the screen completely off and still be logging

 

Apple Macbook 13" running Window's 7 Ultimate 64 bit... it's the ****!
Dan

 

-> Check your port' drivers.

 

10.1" HP Mini 1030NR 16GB SSD 1.6GHz 2.0GB Ram.

 

Dell mini 10, 1g RAM,. 32g SSD... 300$, I bought it to leave in the car. works great.

 

Sony Vaio, Windows 7 Professional 64-bit,4G ram, AMD Athlon P320 2.1 GHz Dual-Core Processor (no front side bus). Extra laptop battery in my carrying case

I have learned that you can never have enough processing power,screen resolution or battery life for a tuning laptop. Adequate RAM is a must as well if you run a lot of apps at once. I have used the bottom of the barrel laptops over the years and regretted every single one. Every minute I am in a customers car dinking with my laptop just looks worse and worse on me. Plus I have better things to do than reboot or wait for my laptop to catch up. With the amount of logging items and DMA resolution happening these days, why get a setup that will get bogged down easily? I don't have a solid state hard drive but I would always recommend one for a custom tuning laptop. Just my opinion, everyones will differ.

 

i have a Lenovo S10E netbook and it has worked great for tuning and logging. havent had an issue yet. i like that fact that it is small enough to have on my lap with needed.

 

Currrently using ASUS T-91 on XP home w/2g Ram. I also swapped the 16gig SDD for a Runcore 32gig SSD. I use logworks/openport 1.3 and works like a charm. The 1.3GHz atom proccesor hates EVOscan it takes forever to load and shutdown.

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Dell Lat D400, XPpro,1.7GHz, 40G hdd 2g ram, no issues with evoscan