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Old Feb 14, 2005 | 04:59 PM
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All of the PCM programs (LS 1 Edit, HP Tuners, EFI Live) are based on the Windows operating system. Have any of you programming experts ever used an Apple PowerBook, running Virtual PC with Windows XP or 2000 inside the Mac OS X operating system, for programming the PCM?
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Old Feb 18, 2005 | 10:52 PM
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Originally Posted by C3vette75
All of the PCM programs (LS 1 Edit, HP Tuners, EFI Live) are based on the Windows operating system. Have any of you programming experts ever used an Apple PowerBook, running Virtual PC with Windows XP or 2000 inside the Mac OS X operating system, for programming the PCM?
It be cheaper (and faster) to just buy an old laptop from ebay. Virtual PC, unlike VMWare, does x86 emulation so it is very slow.

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Old Feb 19, 2005 | 03:03 AM
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Check out retrobox.com too. I bought a refurbished laptop from them last year and have been pretty happy with it. It works just fine for tuning and has a db9 serial port so no adapter is needed. $236
366 mghz
128 ram
6.4 gig hd
floppy
cdrom
14.1" screen
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Old Feb 19, 2005 | 09:43 AM
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Here's another source. I went with a Dell.
http://www.usanotebook.com/Dell_display_page.php
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