Will This Laptop Work For Datalogging?

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Jun 5, 2010 | 08:57 AM

armybyrd

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Will This Laptop Work For Datalogging?

Found this laptop on ebay and was wondering if it would be sufficient for datalogging with my '88 C4. Its a Dell Latitude c600. Says it has 700mhz, cpuP111, 128 mb ram, 6gb hard drive, and cd rom, microsoft xp & office xp. Not sure if its usb port or the serial port.
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=STRK:MEWNX:IT

Jun 5, 2010 | 10:59 AM

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Anyone?

Jun 5, 2010 | 07:18 PM

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Anyone?

I just used my netbook with winaldl, the 6gb disk drive might limit the datalogging. Not sure how much data gets stored with winaldl, looks like the system meets all the requirements listed on the winaldl web site. 88 is still OBD1? Do you have an interface cable to connect to the ALDL connector?

Jun 5, 2010 | 07:20 PM

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Yes OBD1 is til 95 as OBD2 starts with 96. Im getting the cable next.

Jun 5, 2010 | 07:31 PM

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Jun 5, 2010 | 08:39 PM

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Originally Posted by armybyrd

Found this laptop on ebay and was wondering if it would be sufficient for datalogging with my '88 C4.

Perfect
TunerPro needs little speed to run the actual tuning program . I used a very old IBM Thinkpad ( 300Mhz / 32Mb ram ) with Win 95 for many years
Only limitation on datalogging is hard drive size for keeping your saved logs.I have a 18 min Datamaster log file that is only 880Kb so would take a few logs to fill a 6Gb drive

USB is preferred for easier hookup ( only 1 cable needed ) but we used the serial port for many years with no problems.
Just requires a hookup to the cig lighter for external power
http://www.aldlcable.com/sc/details.asp?item=aldlobd1

Same price as the USB OBDI cable
http://www.aldlcable.com/sc/details.asp?item=aldlobd1u

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Jun 5, 2010 | 08:53 PM

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Just found out it does have a usb port. Won this on ebay last night for $50. There were like 5 of them on by the same seller. Not a computer guy at all-just use it for internet and movies but cant wait to get started with learning how to datalog and tune. Just looked on ebay and they have new 100-300gb harddrives for anywhere from $60-100.

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Jun 6, 2010 | 12:47 AM

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Just looked on ebay and they have new 100-300gb hard drives for anywhere from $60-100.

If you are only going to use it for tuning will never need that size storage .Worst case you could use a USB stick to transfer datalog files from laptop to a PC for archiving
If you were going to waste $$ , put more Ram in it