My old Vaio PCG-F250 (Celeron 366) has done me well. But with a max ram of 160meg, and currently running 96 meg (64meg which I would have to chuck away because it has 32 on board and one slot) it is struggling to run even a modern desktop/laptop linux distro (Mandriva
10.1). Yes I know I could go console and it would be fine, but that isn't the point. Vaio's multimedia laptops not dumb text terminals.The Octavia has thrown a CEL. I had a mate with VAG-Com check the code at the Stanford hall eastern europe car show (idle related intermittent, but persistant returning) 2 days after a service. I cleared it, it returned.
I've ebayed an OBD2 cable should have that in a few days, but now I think it is time to get a more modern laptop.
I was hoping to replace my workstation PC this year like i did with the Missus a couple of months ago, but I reckon a decent laptop with wifi, bluetooth and a DVD burner would be useful, than half an upgraded PC, and a semi obsolete laptop (instead of an obsolete laptop and a virtually obsolete workstation. Only thing that keeps it going is half a terrabyte of disk space and it is fairly stable).