Thread: Looking for a new tuning laptop

What are your guys' thoughts on something like this?

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/lenovo-1...&skuId=1576208

I don't want to spend too much. $500 at the absolute max. Any others I should be looking at?

I believe you are tuning with DHP?

If so..that's a good price
If not.. HPT does work on tablets.

i think the issue lies with newer tuning software that does not support versions of windows going all the way back to XP

Originally Posted by BillBoost37

I believe you are tuning with DHP?

If so..that's a good price
If not.. HPT does work on tablets.

I tune with quite a few different programs. It does need to work with DHP though, and that seems to be the limiting factor. Everything else still has support.

Best Buy was the cheapest I could find it anywhere, which surprised me.

Originally Posted by SnowFlake

I use a 7 yr old To****ba running windows XP.
I think it has like an intel centrino processor lol

Works mint!

LOL. I've been using XP laptops since I started. They are showing their age though. Hardware issues are popping up. Plus, they keep yelling at me since XP isn't supported by Microsoft anymore.

I grabbed this a month ago or so

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item...d=271739568987


so what you lose in ram you gain in touchscreen / 8gb thumb / mouse/ case/ and the A8 with R5 graphics chip


i searched allll over this was the best deal i could find

i snagged a used laptop for 25 bucks, it needed a 13 dollar battery. it works great lol

the one you posted is a good laptop for just runnin round doing simple stuff (tuning included); however, if I were you I would run into best buy and actually see what they have. Usually there is a 299-399 laptop with an i5 processor, go find it and report back lol. I worked there for 4 years.

I would sooner buy an old IBM Thinkpad T60/T61 before the one you posted. Think about it you are going to be getting in and out of cars with it, it is going to get bumped around, dropped, what have you. The old ThinkPads were built like tanks, had decent processors in them, huge battery packs (plus you can get bigger ones, I had a T60 that I could run 12 hours on per charge), awesome screens (Plus screen real estate), made from metal not plastic.

Buy one for $150, slap in a 128GB SSD (you'll want one because of road vibrations HDD don't like that), throw in some Ram, and have spent about $250-300 with a durable laptop that pretty much still benchmarks with the one you posted, but will last alot longer.

While I agree on the SSD thing, I dont think its that big of a deal for what he is going to be doing. Rare tuning, Regular user an SSD isnt all that important

They are cheap enough now. 256gb under $100 now, why not.

That is true... if you can find it cheap enough do it.

Nice

That's what I was advised to do 2 years ago. So I bought a t61. I've got all kinds of software and hardware problems with it. Especially when running on the battery. Half of my track passes never get logged because of it.

It has xp installed on it.

I will take a look at best buy and see what they have as for cheap i5 processors.

I'm nervous about buying a used laptop after last time.