enough laptop for MS

[Renny_D]

Are the specs on this enough to run MS?

Unit: 1.97" x 12.2" x 10.08" (7.5 lbs.)
333 MHz AMD-K6 (r) -2 processor with 3DNow!TM technology
12.1" Active Matrix TFT display
512 KB L2 Pipeline Burst Cache
32 MB SyncDRAM, upgradable to 160 MB
4.0 GB hard drive
24X Max CD-ROM drive
56K ITU V.90 modem
3.5" 1.44 MB diskette drive
128-bit 3D accelerated graphics with integrated 2 MB video memory
Maximum internal resolution of up to 800 x 600 x16M; with external monitor - 1280 x 1024 non-interlaced
24-bit colour provides up to 16M brilliant colours
JBL Pro Audio System with Bass Reflex
Aureal A3D(tm) Interactive 360 o Positional Sound
One USB connector
Serial RS-232 compatible, DB9 connector (16550)
Parallel SPP/ECP standard interface (DB25 connector)
Mouse or keyboard port - PS2 style
RJ-11 modem jack
Two audio ports (headphone/speaker-out and microphone-in)
External monitor port
Running Windows 98

Please let me know.

[Karl Buchka]

Yeah, that's enough. You'll have trouble with MegaLogViewer, but MegaTune will be fine.

[JohnMc]

Yeah, pretty much anything that can boot up with windows can run MT.

I had an old IBM Stinkpad I got free from work that was about as slow as that, it worked fine. As mentioned, MLV could be a little slow at times, but it would still display logs and crunch tables acceptably.

[Renny_D]

Yeah, that's enough. You'll have trouble with MegaLogViewer, but MegaTune will be fine.

What sort of trouble?

Thanks
Renny

[GabAlmighty]

So long as you've got that special "com" port you can essentially use anything... or am i wrong? I was told that MS doesn't typically aggree with newer computers because of the firmware. Don't ask me the details about it, thats just all i was told and know:-P

[740ATL]

What sort of trouble?

Thanks
Renny

slower. It takes about 5 minutes to run a refinement on my PII-233, but no trouble with MT.

[Karl Buchka]

What sort of trouble?

Thanks
Renny

Trouble as in a dog**** slow computer with almost no ram will probably come to a screeching halt when you try to analyze a 25 channel 10 minute log file.

[Renny_D]

Thanks maybe I'll hold out for something slightly faster.

Is anyone using their laptop as a full time monitoring - guage displaying device?

Renny

[GabAlmighty]

Thanks maybe I'll hold out for something slightly faster.

Is anyone using their laptop as a full time monitoring - guage displaying device?

Renny

No...... But I love that idea, i think i'm going to do that now:-P

[DrvSfly]

I'd talk to LINUXman about running MS on a cheap laptop.;-)

[igor]

Thanks maybe I'll hold out for something slightly faster.

Is anyone using their laptop as a full time monitoring - guage displaying device?

Renny
See here (http://forums.turbobricks.com/showpost.php?p=1591041&postcount=134).

[500dollar744ti]

ha, i tune with a P1-166mhz, works just fine, that will be plenty.

[The Aspirator]

The IBM thinkbrick that I use is a P1 with 233 mhz and 32mb of ram. It works fan frickin tastically for megatune, assuming that you have basically nothing else on the laptop to slow it down. However it won't run Megalogviewer because that requires a Java runtime thingie that needs 64mb of ram to actually work, so I've been passively trying to find a 32mb card that will fit in this beast but haven't had much luck. I bought one for $10 shipped on ebay but it didn't fit because I guessed wrong. Also it doesn't have a battery pack, so it's surprisingly light. The only downside to this is that the laptop shuts off if the inverter goes low, so it won't stay on while cranking. But it boots up within a minute or two, so I start the car then turn on the tunetop, or I use an extension cord for tuning the cold idle stuff.

Ohh and if you have very little RAM then it can only datalog for a little while before it gets full. I think with 128mb I can do an easy 1/2 hr, probably more, but 32mb fills up damn quick, like 10 minutes IIRC.

But soon I will be upgrading to a slightly nicer tunetop that runs everything and even has wireless.

[Matt Cramer]

So long as you've got that special "com" port you can essentially use anything... or am i wrong? I was told that MS doesn't typically aggree with newer computers because of the firmware. Don't ask me the details about it, thats just all i was told and know:-P

The minimum capability would be able to run Windows 95 - if you somehow found a laptop on Windows 3.1, it would not work.

The only issues I've heard of with MegaTune having trouble on Vista either were wrong permissions settings, or wrong drivers for a USB adapter. Both are curable.