i am trying to get into tuning but am finding searches arent helpin what all do i need to tune and 96 obd II z28 and will windows vista work with most programs.....

 

There are currently only a couple of programs that work with 96 LT1 obd2 applications Jetchip previously known as tunercat which does not work well with vista from my understanding & lt1edit.

 

my prblem is ima buy a new labtop and all seem to have vista on them i have seen some with xp professoinal but i dont really know what to do bout it i have tried lookin at sites to see what is compatable with what but no luck lt1 edit wont open on my mac .. so

 

ok got a labtop but everything i am find for software to tune with is over 400 dollars and not specific to 96 obd II

 

Check this out. http://www.tunercat.com/tnr_desc/do_tc.html

 

thats obd1 stuff. some folks have done like the honda guys though and made
there obd2 cars obd1. it's real cheap

jet will work

new laptops suck period. vista has too many compatibity issues with o\p software. may be fine in a couple years though. most tuning software i have dealt with works best with a serial port. some adaptors work and some don't.
i would trust my pcm to a pentium 2 366mzh over a new laptop.
tried to help a bud of mine down grade (yeah right) to xp pro on a new laptop, nothing worked no w\lan,lan, modem. no backwards compatible drivers on there website. might have been able to make it work though device manager\update drivers if i had a internet connection