A toughbook is always a good choice.

 

Yup been toughbooks for me forever. I carry a cf-52 now with a solid state hard drive. I even have a port replicater in my trailer with a big monitor.

 

An 8-Core Processor would be great for your needs. If it's only a couple hundred bux, that sounds like a great deal.

 

x86 traditional applications within windows are going to be ran through emulation on snapdragon/ARM. some tuning applications might be just fine with that, something more demanding is likely to not have the nuts to stay responsive. I'm wanting to try one, but refurb thinkpads have still been my go-to.

(panasonic toughbooks are certainly great too....)

 

The emulator that they started to include for windows 11 on arm might work better than when they reviewed this one:

https://www.engadget.com/lenovo-flex-5g-review-windows-on-arm-snapdragon-pc-140042969.html

"The Flex 5G was mostly capable of managing my usual workload… Until it wasn’t. After I drained the battery with our video rundown test and restarted the laptop, getting all my Chrome tabs reloaded and apps running took an excruciating 10 minutes. I just wanted to get back into my Google Doc and address some edits or open Gmail to clear out my inbox, but each tab took minutes -- plural --to load."

If it was $50-100 I'd try it out, out of curiousity--- but I'm also happy to stick linux on something like that as well if windows really runs that poorly.

 

I had one of the first WoS (Windows on Snapdragon) Samsung Galaxy Book S laptops and it works great. I was one of the beta testers for WoS and still use it as my main laptop. Battery life far blows way anything else with days of use on a single charge and the 5G connectivity is nice when no WiFi is available.

I have not used it specifically for tuning, but for many other activities. The key things is that you need to make sure what ever software you want to use is supported (ARM64). Note that there still can be issues with emulators and some SW packages. I have some non-automotive related tools that I can not use since an emulator does not work properly and they have not been ported to ARM64.

 

As it turns out someone bought it while I was doing some research. It had everything I would like on my next one. I knew it would have been fine for web surfing and basic stuff but I was worried about realtime on the road stuff. A laggy computer sucks in that environment.
Those toughbooks are tanks for sure. I'm kind of partial to the old thinkpads, maybe I'll just stick with them. The T480 gets great reviews and can be upgraded a bit. I appreciate all the input.

 

Don't sleep on Refurbished Amazon Laptops... I found a mint Dell Latitude with a i7-980H Hexacore with all day battery life for $400. I am very happy with it.. It runs Windows 11..
They will give a rating of the condition. Mine was rated as excellent and it was..
90 day warranty if you don't like it..

 

I'll take a look, thanks.