DON'T TRY AT HOME, attempt to use Arm64-based laptop for X5 diagnosis

[nick325xit 5spd]

This is why I have a few ancient ThinkPads in my inventory. They have no purpose other than car work, so they're never getting screwed around with.

It's WAYYYYYYY better than starting from scratch every couple of years when I upgrade my main machine. (Also, my daily drivers are Macs, so even more reason to dedicate an old cheap machine.)

You can get old, adequate laptops for this purpose for like $100. Frequently less.

I spent a little extra for my most recent machine - $250 for a ThinkPad W530 with a quad core i7, SSD (they all got upgraded - this one has 3 SSDs in it), 32GB RAM, etc. And that was paying at least a hundred bucks extra because the last of the real IBM style thinkpad workstations.

I also have a T30 that runs the GT1/DIS flavor of SCO Unix.