I have a few laptops sitting in my office. They’re pentium 166 machines, with 32mb RAM and 2GB hard drives. They all have COM ports. They’re pretty useless, because they cant even run win2000 or XP. Maybe they can be useful for car tuning?
What system specs are required for the programs used by people who tune cars? If they don’t require winXP, these may be cheap solutions for someone who just wants a laptop for in-car tuning.
Does anyone have any websites I can look at to see what software is used, or know if they even require windows? Do some programs boot off of floppys?
My P3 1.5 ghz laptop has trouble running Tari racing, and it’s not even demanding compared to some other softwares. You’re better off going office space on those pos’s.
can they run FireFox, AIM, and support any kind of wireless card or has an ethernet connection? if so, im claiming one! i kno thats pushing it, but i figured it try lol.
Windows 98 SE is fine for tuning software for standalones like AEM EMS. Actually it’s probably better than XP because the software doesn’t require XP and XP just hogs more resources and memory and slows things down.
My old IBM Thinkpad A20m had 600Mhz P3 with 128mb RAM on Win98 SE ran AEMPro perfect, I never had issues with speed even realtime pc logging. Most newer laptops don’t have serial ports either and then you have to run serial to usb ot serial to pcmcia converters and many times it isn’t as reliable and causes connection problems.
Now I have a newer Toshiba Qosmio with 17" widescreen dual lamp ultra bright glossy screen, 1.8Ghz Centrino, XP, etc but it’s a hassle running a converter and it doesn’t work any better for tuning than the old pos Thinkpad did.
166Mhz and 32mb RAM might be a little too old though lol:P.