Looking for a new laptop for HP tuners
I have 5,000 plus tunes on my laptop and its under 20 gig so I doubt storage is an issue. I also have I ridiculous list of tuning programs installed with tunes in them also and never have an issue with hard drive space.
Another thing that got me once was the cooling fan placement. Had a cheap laptop that the fan outlet was right on the bottom left and apparently I set the laptop on my leg just right and it would constantly overheat. Only had that happen with one but its something to look at.
Another thing that got me once was the cooling fan placement. Had a cheap laptop that the fan outlet was right on the bottom left and apparently I set the laptop on my leg just right and it would constantly overheat. Only had that happen with one but its something to look at.
11" Lenovo here. I like the smaller size for climbing my fat *** in and out of F bodies and Corvettes. I also like the 360° hinges and touch screen capabilities. I don't use it as a tablet often but I'm happy with it compared to my last full size Toshiba Satellite. The other thing I would look for if you are currently looking is solid state drive because of the beating around they take around the shop.
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If you are looking for a laptop for tuning, then your laptop's processor must be an i5, and it has a minimum of 128GB storage capacity.
I am suggested you a Lenovo Yoga 910 for HP tuners. It has Intel i7-7500U processor, 8 GB RAM with 256 GB SSD. It has a good touchscreen responsiveness so you can easily operate.
I am suggested you a Lenovo Yoga 910 for HP tuners. It has Intel i7-7500U processor, 8 GB RAM with 256 GB SSD. It has a good touchscreen responsiveness so you can easily operate.
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If you are looking for a laptop for tuning, then your laptop's processor must be an i5, and it has a minimum of 128GB storage capacity.
I am suggested you a Lenovo Yoga 910 for HP tuners. It has Intel i7-7500U processor, 8 GB RAM with 256 GB SSD. It has a good touchscreen responsiveness so you can easily operate.
I am suggested you a Lenovo Yoga 910 for HP tuners. It has Intel i7-7500U processor, 8 GB RAM with 256 GB SSD. It has a good touchscreen responsiveness so you can easily operate.
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We have went through literally 20+ laptop's easily in the last 15 years and tried everything from $200 ones to almost $4000 ones and in the battery life is the number one priority. Especially for us, tuning more than one car in a day. We switched to custom MacBook Air's around 5 years ago and they beat every laptop we have every had by a mile in every way.
For several years we bought fairly cheap laptops and put solid state drives in them, maxed them out in ram and bought two or three extra batteries for them carried 2 identical laptops around to get by. It worked but was a pain keeping up with trying to keep all the batteries charged and keep the computers synced. The average person tuning there own car obviously won't need two laptops but would run into the same battery issue.
So my advice by the best one you can afford that has the longest battery life and/or that you can buy bigger batteries for, performance is not a big deal.
For several years we bought fairly cheap laptops and put solid state drives in them, maxed them out in ram and bought two or three extra batteries for them carried 2 identical laptops around to get by. It worked but was a pain keeping up with trying to keep all the batteries charged and keep the computers synced. The average person tuning there own car obviously won't need two laptops but would run into the same battery issue.
So my advice by the best one you can afford that has the longest battery life and/or that you can buy bigger batteries for, performance is not a big deal.
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Idk anything about the Mac support but I would predict barriers. Find a cheap windows platform. I never buy new they lose all the value the moment you buy it. And as for battery life I don't think that's really an issue I think that was someone just ranting about macs there is literally nothing different about them other than the OS which is somewhat less power thirsty than windows. It's way too easy to supply power to any unit these days wether it be a back up apu or a running vehicle with a solid battery and a 300 watt sine wave inverter. Although I love Linux I used to use it all the time along side Ubuntu/backtrack 5 back in the day it just doesn't have the support windows does and needless to say Mac devices aren't that great there is a lot of lost money in the base entry level hardware they give you. The money you invest in it can buy you 2-10 times the computing power easily. Yes with a decent amount of work apple OS's are user friendly with most devices but not all
