katana

Anybody thought about buying a Libretto from eBay to use with VAG Tool?

frank

yes..but since I already bought a used Dell LT...seems like overkill

katana

$100-$400, can't beat the price. Not a big fan of used stuff though, who knows what shape it's in.

frank

mine's been rock solid for over a year

katana

by the cd changer. I'd like to build a solid mount where it can just stay all the time, drawing power from a circuit if possible and just connected to the car. I could then pull it and grab data as needed. Not sure how easy or feasible this would be.

Kent L

A sub-notebook would be perfect for running VAG tool. It is small enough to stash them in your car and cheap enough to not really worry about it.

The only thing that you might find limiting is that the screen resolution is pretty low and the use of a CD-ROM requires attaching of an external device.

Toshiba is going to release a new Libretto running a Transmeta Crusoe processor soon. I think it be too costly to just run VAG Tool.

Check out this <a href="http://computers.cnet.com/hardware/0-1027-8-6602385-1.html" target="_blank">link</a> for the news blurb

katana

Save the data to Libretto's HD and use network to get it to another machine for analysis.

Mikey L

That really tempts me to get a VAG tool now.

-mikey

Richard Solomon

Just make a cig lighter cable, power car up to trick Libretto into switching to "A/C" and then turn car off again.

(Toshiba kindly won't view 12V as "A/C adapter present" but will view 13.5V that way - then doesn't care when input drops to 12V.)