Hey guys, Getting ready to purchase the 4425A and a new laptop. Budget is around 1000.00 for the laptop give or take a few hundo . Being a Toyota tech we have the Panisonic toughbook at work but I'm not seeing too many people useing them on the YouTube Diag. channels My 6 year old Dell has been a decent unit as long as you don't unplug it! Terrible battery. Need something kind of tough or at least not delicate, with good battery life, well suited for the Pico as well as other shop operations. Was kind of looking at the surface pro 7 not sure if a normal laptop would be better?
Any Acer or Asus will do nicely as long as you have Windows, a decent sized memory and a reasonable size solid state hard disk.
I use an HP just now and the touch pad isn't nice to use.
" We're trying to plug a hole in the universe, what are you doing ?. "
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I use the toughbook, there hard to beat in durability out in the shop, it has touchscreen but is not great to use with scope, I had a hp elitepad tablet (similar to surface) and I hated it
The new Pico 7 software is a lot easier to use with a touchscreen. I have an old ish HP Elitebook with a touchscreen and so far it is OK. Nice balance between rugged and useable.
I just recently purchased the 4425a myself, thinking it had the touchscreen setup with it. I realized my mistake shortly after unboxing and figured well I'll just get a good scan tool to go with it. However financials being what they are and my need for the scope being specific at the moment, I was hoping to return the scope. It's unused of course but I'm unfamiliar with SD's return policy. With that being said which scan tool would you all recommend with this scope? I was wanting it in the price range of the original post above and any reasoning would be appreciated. Thanks in advance and have a blessed day.
