You mean two quad core processors? I have never heard of 8 processors. What brand?

 

To be precise, that is correct. I was just referring to the device Manager. Sometimes I over-simplify when it comes to discussing technology, not everybody is savvy with this stuff. Still... it's a reasonably powerful laptop for the money (HP with a 17" screen). I have a friend who's into Alienware and my son built an overclocked uber-gamer with liquid cooling, so I don't consider this laptop impressive... just way overkill for AE.

 

I've been wanting to do this for some time now. I might have to get one of those wireless OBDII dongles and start hacking.

I'm using a netbook for my AE. Once you get past all the locking up it does on boot up (just turn it on and wait 10 minutes usually does it), and waiting for several attempts to start talking to the truck, it does fine after that.

The fact that the whole setup fits in a bible cover (yes, not many people try to steal a bible) and drops down behind the rear seat is an advantage, as well.

 

I'm no tech geek, but that looks overkill...lol.

Can someone explain "porting"? Like as in routing or something...

The only porting I know is with a dremel

 

Porting is much like the art of transposing sheet music from one instrument to another.
Input/output values for different devices have evolved along different lines of technomilogical advancement. A cross platform programmer bridges the gaps for the device with computer language and turns foreign data into something the target device can use.
Would be incredibly simple to get an android version up and running... and making hella profit. Everybody nowadays carries an android or iphone everyehere they go. Like it or not... this is the direction technology travels. Make it more complicated, and smaller. Then compound and repeat.

Desktops and laptops are very fast becoming in danger of seeing the same fate as the rotary face telephone, vhs tapes, leaded gasoline, the long sword.
Still works if you got nothing else...

Android is built onthe ubuntu linux platform. A windows to ubuntu linux port is typically very light work. Could probably even put together a "propietary" Bluetooth device to work with the ported softs.

 

Thanks for breaking it down in layman terms.

Sometimes I wish I would have followed thru with learning C++...

 

Is this english? and is it sad that im only in my mid 20's and should know this?

 

I'd settle for just a Linux port. I'd even change distros from Debian to redhat if it meant it would "just work". Unfortunately I think thats the straw that breaks the camels back... since its closed source and kernel updates really don't work good with that.

If I ever get teh money together for AE I'll have to suck it up and buy windows so I can actually run it.

 

Johndeere jarhead, you think it is tough knowing this stuff in your mid twenties, try your early fifties. There is a reason your 0311 and I was 1371, there are things we are better at than computers. Semper Fi.

 

Do you think AE is ever going to make a run-time monitor? Seem to me that logging all that data, they could build an engine monitor for it as well.

What about the OBD2 dongle to collect data - like you can see on the Progressive Insurance ads - and then download to the computer to review. This would help a lot with the other cars, we have 5 kids, that I am responsible for maintaining.

 

Rhode... you could probably get it to run in slackware on redhat,debian,mandrake,etc...
Winblows emulator

Still...
I used all my old laptops for target practice... not much use for pentium 3's anymore. I have zero interest in aquiring another one as a dedicated ae machine. So ae isnt an option for me unless its on an android platform.
If when the time comes for me to purchase a software system to talk to my truck... if ae isnt ported over... my business will go to torquepro.

Xtof

 

Translating English to Japanese is a fair approximation to porting from one operating system to another. Not exact, I know, but approximately the same.

 

I am getting into cad software in school....architecture....so I will need to eventually go with something "bigger" than my quad core i7 with 8g of ram. But its working for now.
My desktop has a massive heatsink but def no need for liquid cooling.

 

Xtof
Yea, not so great in the 64bit OS. And I'm not going to pull 32 gigs of ram just for a windows app. And don't say 32bit PAE. I've been running that and I'm about to pull it cause it causes all of the cores to spike to 99% util, and I have yet to figure out how just having a terminal window causes that.

And for those that thats all mud... 32bit windows only works with 2 gigs of ram (not storage space) correctly and can be fudged to 3 gigs. if you want to be able to use more than 3 gigs of application ram you have to run 64 bit or 32bit PAE. PAE (Physical Address Extenstions) is a bandaid to allow you to use more ram, but its less efficient, and "can" cause odd application issues, like your programs just stop and you have to hard reboot.

Geez, I really need to find a job outside of IT.

The last of the cad work I did was with P4 and 1g or 2g of ram. Have the apps really gotten that bad? Although most of my experience was in 1999-2000, I had to fix some drawings in 2006. If you are good with, and enjoy, using cad you are a better person than I. I hate cad with a passion. I'd rather write the software than use it.

 

Yup, still thinking about this...

So, Windows 8 is about to debut. This will include their own tablet called the "Surface". I guessing AE will run on it correct?

I would consider selling my current tablet for this setup...