World record claim, 1 car and 8 (yes eight!) Laptops !!

[anonymous-user]

Right, can anyone outside of F1 beat this?


(We were trying to fix a car today, with 4 engineers, each needing 2 laptops, for a grand total of 8 being used simultaneously )

Can't remember the last time i used a spanner on a car tbh............

[Pupp]

Get a TVR; get to use hammers too!

[chuntington101]

Max, for people not into cars or IT you have just made the car game sound even more geeky than it was before. lol/ Not that anyone on Pistonheads minds.

What car are you working on Max? cant be british. and i would check your guys aren't secretly have a cheeky game of Call of Duty Black Ops. lol

Chris.

[anonymous-user]

Pupp said:

Get a TVR; get to use hammers too!

You could always hit your TVR with a laptop?? best of both worlds?? ;-)


It was in fact a British car! (although, these days, a lot of the electronics h/w obviously comes from Europe)


It's a bit of a 'mare at the moment, because each of the systems on the car is from a different supplier, and all have different Cal/logging tool sets, hence the use of soooo many laptops.

[stevieturbo]

Cant an iphone replace them all ? lol

[anonymous-user]

stevieturbo said:

Cant an iphone replace them all ? lol

Not unless you can get one with a large number of Ethernet and USB sockets!

We regularly log stuff at 10's and even 100's of kSPS, for which you need some serious data transmission / buffering, not to mention a large storage capacity. Modern Laptops are so dam powerful now, that just about all the cal tools are using 10Mbs ethernet for data linking.

[Carby131]

i have alaways wanted to know what benifit you get from using laptops with cars, can you transform a laptop into a diagnostic? hints and tips would be ace as i feel the need for greed (of knowledge)

what were you actualy trying to achive BTW?

[dvance]

I assume it's a race car/prototype of some sort Otherwise I am not buying anything newish ever