Hey all.. does anyone have a site or link to a cheap laptop site? I want to purchase a laptop but dont feel like spending 900 dollars just for a laptop so I can use my CANScan tool to track what the car is doing..

Anything cheaper than 900 is cool

Thankx a lot....

 

900? just to run canscan...let me help you with this one...you may want to move it to audio electronics or even performance first...otherwise this thread might die off...

 

Try out www.ebay.com

I think the price of good, brand new laptops nowadays is right around $900. I'm sure you can find an excellent slightly used laptop for less than $900 on Ebay.

 

I hate dell but let me just give you an idea home much the MOST you should pay for a laptop...this one is $599 after rebate...to much power for what you need and 'dude you'd get a piece of crap' http://www1.us.dell.com/content/prod...=04&l=en&s=bsd

 

NEC VERSA tablet if your going to spend $900 though get this nice tablet PC even though it is sold by the evil empire

this would do the trick although you could get something that costs even less:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...723373396&rd=1

 

I dont even think I can move threads.. just ask the mods to move it...

What I really meant about 900 was that I would only use this laptop to help me tune but the ones that I have been looking at were around 900.. and thats just too much to spend I think...

Thankx for the site for the Dell laptop.. thats a pretty good deal. Just need to find out if it has a USB port which it should since one of the options was for an external USB floppy drive.. now.. 600 I dont mind spending for a laptop.. thats pretty good.... but maybe I can do better.. i'll keep hunting...

The ebay option to me isnt very appealing.. I would want a brand new laptop or refurbished from the mfg with warranty.. nothing used.. dont want the hassle...

 

all of these laptops have USB and even more so USB 2.0 and probably more then one port as well...2 or 4 usually good luck in your search davefzr

 

Tell you what, come up to vegas, bring the canscan and you can use my laptop provided I can use your canscan to tune my car too.

 

Wait for the day after Thanksgiving sales. Best Buy, Circuit City, and CompUSA always have cheap computers for $399/$499. You might have to get in line at midnight, but you'll get a cheap computer.

 

while Dell isn't the best...check out their refurbs...even Sony Vaio and HP Omnibooks...

 

Try: http://search.ebay.com/armada-7400_W...sortpropertyZ2

Cheap nice little laptop with plenty of cheap batteries, parts and support.

Vince

 

http://www.techbargains.com/ and http://www.xpbargains.com/ are both great sites for finding the best tech deals. There are always cheap laptop deals on there.

 

www.newegg.com
usually has good deals.

 

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduc...115-153&DEPA=3 this acer is $699.00.

 

Cool thankx a lot guys.. I appreciate it...

 

yea we got moved

 

http://www1.us.dell.com/content/prod...=19&l=en&s=dhs

 

repost supreme...personally I think for the prices we are all showing you are better off buying a mini-pc, an an lcd monitor, now you've got a whole pc hooked up in the car all the time, forget a laptop

 

I've bought a couple laptops for this type of purpose for under 500 canadian (P3-500) - at www.maxiumwarehousedirect.com - they sell end of lease product from the other half of their business - leasing laptops and desktop machines to companies.

I don't know what kind of hardware you are using, but CAN maxes out at 1MBps, which I doubt a car uses - most likely they use the lower, but more reliable bitrate at 128kbps.....any laptop should be able to handle it - I use stuff at my work that runs off CAN at 1MBps, with pentium-based devices (custom hardware, but same generic processor). So, any scanner that has a USB or Ethernet to CAN bridge (I'd stick with ethernet, just a little safer) should be fine on anything with a little more guts than a PII-300 (a rough accounting for the overhead of Windows & all the other crap on the machine).

 

haha Black Friday...I've got a website for you http://w888.lunarpages.com/BF.htm

keep this on the DL

 

gateway 7405gx from BB $1249.99 after instant rebate. Best Bang for the buck I've seen lately, that's why I bought it!

 

$1249 yikes!

 

hahaha well I think it's a great bargain if you look at all that's included

 

you've got to give us a link

 

here
http://www.gateway.com/home/products...t_7405gx.shtml

Best Buy gives an instant $150 rebate, sometimes. Right now they are all sold out