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beaver34 - 16/11/10 at 08:30 PM

im after a laptop for the car to setup dash and ecu, must have serial port not bothered about battery life

thanks

britishtrident - 16/11/10 at 10:34 PM

USB to serial convertors usually work OK with most car diagnostic software at least with XP

matt_gsxr - 16/11/10 at 10:59 PM

I run a netbook eeepc, about £200 with a USB to serial adapter, which works great with megasquirt.
Very robust, long battery life, and not too precious if it gets damaged.

Matt

RazMan - 16/11/10 at 11:32 PM

quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
USB to serial convertors usually work OK with most car diagnostic software at least with XP


And with Win7 too

r1_pete - 17/11/10 at 10:36 AM

I'm sure I have a spare IBM Thinkpad T40 in the garage, will check later what ports it has.

The T20-23 range deffo have Serials, and go for peanuts on eBAY now, I use a T23, very robust reliable little machine.

beaver34 - 17/11/10 at 11:48 AM

quote:
Originally posted by r1_pete
I'm sure I have a spare IBM Thinkpad T40 in the garage, will check later what ports it has.

The T20-23 range deffo have Serials, and go for peanuts on eBAY now, I use a T23, very robust reliable little machine.


If you could that would be great

beaver34 - 17/11/10 at 05:49 PM

i do have a usb to seriel but it seemed hit and miss when it worked, but would consider any laptop really

beaver34 - 20/11/10 at 11:53 AM

UPP

r1_pete - 28/11/10 at 04:41 PM

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