is there any possible way the rtek system can hook up to a lap top

 

Not yet, no.

 

I really wish the Rtek was capable of doing this. I'd like to do the maps at my computer then go to the car and load them in. I can't even do this with the Palm (needs to be connected to the car to access the maps) and that is very frustrating.

 

hopefully when im ready to pick up this system, it'll be able to do it
thanks

 

...Yes you can use your laptop. But the average joe would get frustrated on making it all work. I have the palm emulator from Palm running a palm OS/rom with pocketlogger Rtek installed on it and then have the hotsync for the emulator routed to the port that my "USB to serial" cable created which is plugged into my rtek ECU. Altogether it works just as quick as a regular palm, only the Palm is emulated on my computer, I basically have a program that looks like a palm pda running on my desktop and its an imaginary pda on my computer running rtek just fine. In the past the emulators wouldn't save maps and other rtek things, but this one works just fine and I can do a lot of other un-speakable easy things that only a laptop can provide with my rtek program. If I want to put in an entire timing map or something that would take just a thousand screen taps on a palm pda in the car, I grab my laptop, build the entire map on my emulator in the house, and then send it to the ecu like usual as if I did it all in the car with the pda. Its a bunch of extra wires, and its not the right way to do it normally, you'll need to buy that cable I mentioned, could probably void your rtek warantee because its not their program and way they'd like you to do things, and there's maybe only a handful of people that could figure all this out and make it work anyway. But it does work and I do it from time to time because the old Palm I use in the rx's is old and the battery would go nearly dead by the time I finish the lead timing map or something. A windows program would go a long ways by far, but this is my alternative.

Great product anyways guys at pocket logger, keep up the good work.

 

So this does work. I had tried it with a double sided female serial connection and it didn't work. I would love to give this a try if it is verified working. Everyone that has a 2.1 should know how to get this working if it works just fine!

 

Yeah it works. But you'll still have a palm only on a larger screen, but with a keyboard, and a mouse. And you'll need a usb to serial cable adapter, which is neat because they're usually cheaper than a hot sync cable.