Inexpensive tablet for tuner studio

[woodsbuggy1]

I am looking for an inexpensive tablet for tuning my off road buggy. I am running Microsquirt and would like to find a cheap ($100 or less) tablet just for tuning and datalogging . What are you using or what do I need as far processer speed and memory? I would be able to do more tuning if I could use something other than my laptop. This will be used in a dusty, muddy and wet enviroment.
Thanks
Kenric

[Piledriver]

Any tablet running windows 10 or 11 AND with an AMD or intel processor should work fine, make sure it has an SD or microSD card slot or at least more than one USB3 port... They also like to skimp on drive space on those cheap machines, so you can barely install any software.

I'd personally suggest aiming a little higher pricewise, at least sometimes you get what you pay for.

No ARM processor unless it ships with Linux on it, that will run Tuner Studio fine and a lot faster on limited hardware.

I'm still using my Lenovo X300 from 2009. Runs win11 better than 10... Runs Linux better than either.
(Note: "Win 11" is purely marketing smoke and mirrors, check the actual release version#)

[Bruce.m]

Not totally related but I’m planning to create a dash screen using a RPI zero W2 & a barebones tunerstudio install. Probably use a long slim screen which is roughly the footprint of a DIN audio head unit. Not ideal for viewing a full VE / spark map at that size however.

[Piledriver]

Another option comes to mind... I ran Androidx86 for awhile, ran Tunerstudio on a linux sub install (Android uses the linux kernel, a Linux distro just uses the already installed Android /Linux kernel)
I could also run Shadowdash or a couple other dash softwares on Android on the same hardware without rebooting.
(just not all at the same time)

Shadowdash could not be used for any tuning at that time, there are others that can, not sure of current status.

Shadowdash at least has a HUD display mode....

[woodsbuggy1]

Thanks for your input, actually my wife just bought a Oukitel RT5 waterproof tablet that we are hoping to use for off road navigation(lifetime trail maps) and tuning, just need to find a bluetooth adapter for my Microsquirt so we can keep it wireless and waterproof. It will be springtime until we are able to test it but should have plenty of storage to accommodate both of our needs and was $299 on Amazon.

[Piledriver]

On android--- to install linux you must have root.

Assuming you do, that appears to be excellent hardware and will run tunerstudio with zero issues in the linux install if you want to go there.

I kind of gave up on bt after awhile, usb just works. Serial over wifi might be an option.