Looking for a new laptop for HP tuners
04-16-2017, 06:55 PM
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Looking for a new laptop for HP tuners Like the title says I'm looking for a laptop to run HP tuners on. My old dinosaur finally died on me so I'm curious what others have had the best luck with and what has worked well.
I'm really only interested in laptops.
I'm really only interested in laptops.
04-17-2017, 09:41 AM
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Yeah, go for the one with the most battery life. You'll see when you're tuning that you may end up spending an hour or two out at a time and if you have a gaming laptop, you aren't lasting two hours with HPT drawing juice from the laptop. I know, I was using mine.
But I installed Windows 10 on my Macbook and it lasts like 5-6 hours on a full charge and lasts over 3+ hours on all the time with the scanner going and HPT pulling juice from it.
But I installed Windows 10 on my Macbook and it lasts like 5-6 hours on a full charge and lasts over 3+ hours on all the time with the scanner going and HPT pulling juice from it.
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04-17-2017, 11:26 PM
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Yeah, go for the one with the most battery life. You'll see when you're tuning that you may end up spending an hour or two out at a time and if you have a gaming laptop, you aren't lasting two hours with HPT drawing juice from the laptop. I know, I was using mine.
But I installed Windows 10 on my Macbook and it lasts like 5-6 hours on a full charge and lasts over 3+ hours on all the time with the scanner going and HPT pulling juice from it.
But I installed Windows 10 on my Macbook and it lasts like 5-6 hours on a full charge and lasts over 3+ hours on all the time with the scanner going and HPT pulling juice from it.
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.
04-19-2017, 12:22 AM
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As long as we are discussing......
My boss bought a Lenovo that doubles as a tablet. Pain in the ***. Not very rugged and too small!
It busted in less than a year.
So he bought another one. Smaller!
I've noted that the USB jacks are wearing out from repeated use.
So so my preference order would be:
Long batt life
Anti glare screen
14" display or bigger
Rugged (at least for shop use)
My boss bought a Lenovo that doubles as a tablet. Pain in the ***. Not very rugged and too small!
It busted in less than a year.
So he bought another one. Smaller!
I've noted that the USB jacks are wearing out from repeated use.
So so my preference order would be:
Long batt life
Anti glare screen
14" display or bigger
Rugged (at least for shop use)
04-24-2017, 05:57 AM
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Something else to consider besides battery life is USB port placement.
I drive American cars and prefer the laptop in the passenger's seat facing me so I can glance down and quickly check the virtual gauges for something obvious while driving. This means any USB ports on the right side of the laptop are directly against the seat. On a previous laptop had an intermittent issue with my serial wideband losing connection to HP Tuners and it was plugged into that port. Now I only use a laptop with the USB ports on the rear or left side of the laptop. If there is only one port that fits the previous description, I use a cheap USB hub on the port to gain a second for the wideband.
I drive American cars and prefer the laptop in the passenger's seat facing me so I can glance down and quickly check the virtual gauges for something obvious while driving. This means any USB ports on the right side of the laptop are directly against the seat. On a previous laptop had an intermittent issue with my serial wideband losing connection to HP Tuners and it was plugged into that port. Now I only use a laptop with the USB ports on the rear or left side of the laptop. If there is only one port that fits the previous description, I use a cheap USB hub on the port to gain a second for the wideband.
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Something else to consider besides battery life is USB port placement.
I drive American cars and prefer the laptop in the passenger's seat facing me so I can glance down and quickly check the virtual gauges for something obvious while driving. This means any USB ports on the right side of the laptop are directly against the seat. On a previous laptop had an intermittent issue with my serial wideband losing connection to HP Tuners and it was plugged into that port. Now I only use a laptop with the USB ports on the rear or left side of the laptop. If there is only one port that fits the previous description, I use a cheap USB hub on the port to gain a second for the wideband.
I drive American cars and prefer the laptop in the passenger's seat facing me so I can glance down and quickly check the virtual gauges for something obvious while driving. This means any USB ports on the right side of the laptop are directly against the seat. On a previous laptop had an intermittent issue with my serial wideband losing connection to HP Tuners and it was plugged into that port. Now I only use a laptop with the USB ports on the rear or left side of the laptop. If there is only one port that fits the previous description, I use a cheap USB hub on the port to gain a second for the wideband.
04-28-2017, 12:04 AM
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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.