Good laptops for tuning purposes only
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Not all the 10" screens. Both of my 10.1" EEEpcs had 1024x600 screens, that you could run at 1024x768 and cut off the sides (or made it a scrolling desktop depending on the setting), and made it look all fuzzy and shitty because it wasnt the native resolution. My first one was a 1005HA and my current one is like the older dual core brother of the same one.
Still not relevant to Megasquirt tuning. For that, you could literally use any EEEpc ever made, although the extremely old 700-series models with the 7" 800×480 would probably be a bit of a pain in the ***.
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There are so many of these on eBay that it's kind of silly:
Acer Aspire One D150 10 1" Netbook Customized Microsoft Word 2010 Installed | eBay
Acer Aspire One D250 KAV60 10 1" Netbook Runs Great | eBay
Acer ZG5 Notebook 20GB HDD 1 GB RAM 8 GB SD Works Perfect | eBay
(etc...)
Acer Aspire One D150 10 1" Netbook Customized Microsoft Word 2010 Installed | eBay
Acer Aspire One D250 KAV60 10 1" Netbook Runs Great | eBay
Acer ZG5 Notebook 20GB HDD 1 GB RAM 8 GB SD Works Perfect | eBay
(etc...)
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Since some of you have mentioned windows 8 tablets, what are your thoughts on the Asus T100?
ASUS Transformer Book T100 Convertible Notebook Tablet, Specs & More
More expensive than a basic laptop, but it should be more than powerful enough for tuner studio. Is the resolution high enough to be useful?
ASUS Transformer Book T100 Convertible Notebook Tablet, Specs & More
More expensive than a basic laptop, but it should be more than powerful enough for tuner studio. Is the resolution high enough to be useful?
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Why not use this app to copy the map on your phone via bluethooth https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...id=com.msdroid
Than you can connect your phone/tablet to your home computer to annalize or modifie it.
Than you can connect your phone/tablet to your home computer to annalize or modifie it.
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Since some of you have mentioned windows 8 tablets, what are your thoughts on the Asus T100?
ASUS Transformer Book T100 Convertible Notebook Tablet, Specs & More
More expensive than a basic laptop, but it should be more than powerful enough for tuner studio. Is the resolution high enough to be useful?
ASUS Transformer Book T100 Convertible Notebook Tablet, Specs & More
More expensive than a basic laptop, but it should be more than powerful enough for tuner studio. Is the resolution high enough to be useful?
But like I said, for almost that price I was able to get an ultrabook with an i5 and a 15" touch screen, so I'd be more inclined to go that route.
Here, has more HD space (though it's not an SSD), more ram, a more powerful (though less energy efficient) processor, and is $150 cheaper. All you lose is that the keyboard doesn't detach, which like I said I never did that with my Transformer anyway.
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Screen resolution is a non-issue with the MS tuning software. The resolution-based objections which Leafy et al have posed refer to the tuning software for other ECUs. You can tune a Megasquirt in 800x600, as I have done many times.
Why not use this app to copy the map on your phone via bluethooth https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...id=com.msdroid
Than you can connect your phone/tablet to your home computer to annalize or modifie it.![big grin](https://www.miataturbo.net/images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
Than you can connect your phone/tablet to your home computer to annalize or modifie it.
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Since some of you have mentioned windows 8 tablets, what are your thoughts on the Asus T100?
ASUS Transformer Book T100 Convertible Notebook Tablet, Specs & More
More expensive than a basic laptop, but it should be more than powerful enough for tuner studio. Is the resolution high enough to be useful?
ASUS Transformer Book T100 Convertible Notebook Tablet, Specs & More
More expensive than a basic laptop, but it should be more than powerful enough for tuner studio. Is the resolution high enough to be useful?
1. They can be a pita to find after the fact (optional keyboards, accessories )
2. Tunerstudio , from experience, is a pita to use on a touchscreen only especially while in the car trying to tweak something while you're sitting on the side of the road.
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I solved that problem by carrying a tiny little bluetooth keyboard with me in the car. When I needed to do any "serious" text entry, I used that. Most of the time it stayed in the glovebox.
This is the exact one which I have (I still have it):
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There are nicer ones out there, I liked this one because of cursor keys.
Others:
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If it were me, I'd pay a little extra for one that's already loaded with the proper OS.
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I've not run TunerStudio under Linux but the Netbooks are decent Linux machines.
I'd still hold of finding a machine with 2 gig of ram. Look around for one of the later Acer Netbooks. They had the larger battery and came with W7 installed so drivers are still fairly current.
I'd still hold of finding a machine with 2 gig of ram. Look around for one of the later Acer Netbooks. They had the larger battery and came with W7 installed so drivers are still fairly current.
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By "proper" I mean simply any version of MS Windows, as opposed to Linux. While it is possible, in theory, top install and run Tunerstudio under Linux, I have tried and failed on several occasions.
By contrast, Windows is quite easy top use and well-supported in terms of community knowledge-base. Personally, I prefer it. If you are comfortable with Linux and sufficiently well versed it to get applications to work from outside of the package manager, then by all means feel free to use it.
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Gotcha, thanks Joe and everyone else, sorry wasn't trying to dismiss anyone's advice I didn't see several people had responded before him, internet surfing on a cell sucks.
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Also, regarding that which is being said about Ghz and GB, I'm not kidding when I say that the last dedicated MS-tuning machine I owned had 128 MB of RAM and a processor whose speed was rated in MHz.
Seriously, don't get caught up in the notion that you need a high-end machine for this. Tuning a Megasquirt is less computationally-intensive than browsing this forum.
Seriously, don't get caught up in the notion that you need a high-end machine for this. Tuning a Megasquirt is less computationally-intensive than browsing this forum.
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Other than the issue running Office with the vertical screen resolution I'd probably still use it daily but it drives me crazy how it screws with dialogs.
But, you know that from your earlier post.
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All things considered I believe my original notion to get a Dell Latitude D420 (Intel duo core @ 1.2Ghz, 2.5 GB RAM, 60 GB HD, 198 minutes battery life and 12" screen with 1280x800 resolution) was spot on, especially for $85 and includes media drive. It has pretty good reviews from what I have seen but the only downside is I will need to get a new OS since it doesn't have one. The seller has 100% positive feedback w/ over 6k transactions, so should be everything he claims it to be. ( condition, etc.) Thanks again for everyones input!