Cheap Laptops for CANScan tool
11-18-2004, 12:11 AM
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Cheap Laptops for CANScan tool
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....
Anything cheaper than 900 is cool
Thankx a lot....
11-18-2004, 12:27 AM
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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 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.
11-18-2004, 12:28 AM
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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
11-18-2004, 12:34 AM
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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
this would do the trick although you could get something that costs even less:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...723373396&rd=1
11-18-2004, 01:39 AM
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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...
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...
11-18-2004, 01:45 AM
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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
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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...
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...
11-18-2004, 09:51 AM
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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.
11-18-2004, 11:00 AM
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Try: http://search.ebay.com/armada-7400_W...sortpropertyZ2
Cheap nice little laptop with plenty of cheap batteries, parts and support.
Vince
Cheap nice little laptop with plenty of cheap batteries, parts and support.
Vince
11-18-2004, 11:10 AM
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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.
11-18-2004, 01:27 PM
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www.newegg.com
usually has good deals.
usually has good deals.
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http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduc...115-153&DEPA=3 this acer is $699.00.
11-18-2004, 06:57 PM
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11-18-2004, 10:59 PM
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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
11-20-2004, 11:33 AM
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end-of-lease
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).
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).
11-20-2004, 02:06 PM
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