Megasquirt laptop

[Mr WST]

Trying to find a laptop with the DB9 port. What laptops are you using?


Cheers

Thack

[spitfire4v8]

I use three laptops for mapping as each one works / doesn't work with different ecus.
I have a thinkpad t28 with serial and parallel ports on the back, but for megasquirt stuff I actually use a thinkpad t42 with a pcmcia-serial card adaptor in the side.

[Mr WST]

Cheers. Not looking for anything fancy just enough to hold the ms programme and tune etc.

[Sardonicus]

spitfire4v8 said:

I use three laptops for mapping as each one works / doesn't work with different ecus.
I have a thinkpad t28 with serial and parallel ports on the back, but for megasquirt stuff I actually use a thinkpad t42 with a pcmcia-serial card adaptor in the side.

Always had IBM stuff great for MS T30 I think was the last machine with on board serial support great machine but slow nowadays, I tend to use the later unit's IBM/Lenovo T43/T400 etc with a PCMCIA card on these as I hate those serial to USB converter things especially when flashing firmware although I do have a FTDI one that works but I prefer serial to serial for its reliability

Edited by Sardonicus on Friday 5th December 12:13

[blitzracing]

The Dell latitude "D series" are good robust laptops. The D630 is a reasonable PC that will windows 7 if needs be with a 9 pin serial. In the past the IBM / Lenovo laptops where pretty well built, but the current generation are truely horrible and really cheaply made. I would not use one even if it was free...

[Sardonicus]

blitzracing said:

The Dell latitude "D series" are good robust laptops. The D630 is a reasonable PC that will windows 7 if needs be with a 9 pin serial. In the past the IBM / Lenovo laptops where pretty well built, but the current generation are truely horrible and really cheaply made. I would not use one even if it was free...

So I have heard Mark Dell is one laptop Ive never owned strangly enough but have had a few Precision Xeon workstations for work cracking kit certainly agree with the IBM/Lenovo thing Lenovo dropped the titanium chassis too

[blitzracing]

Ive the joy of looking after about 5000 laptops on site both hardware and software, so I get a pretty good view of how robust they are. The company went for Lenovo to save a few pennies, and its been nothing but grief since.

[Sardonicus]

blitzracing said:

Ive the joy of looking after about 5000 laptops on site both hardware and software, so I get a pretty good view of how robust they are. The company went for Lenovo to save a few pennies, and its been nothing but grief since.

Ouch

[Mr WST]

Wel ive found myself a very cheap Dell 610 that i pick up Saturday. This should do the trick...

[blitzracing]

Good choice- we had loads of them on site and they are pretty robust with no design faults.