Laptop for Star diagnosis C3/SDconnect C4 Customer Feedback

Recently, many Mercedes owners have been looking for Star diagnostic units but most of them really don’t know why the laptop is necessary but see most come with a hard drive. Does the software need to be on it’s own hard drive or can it be put on their existing drive if they have room? Here, we customer service would like to help will-be buyers out.

Quoted from users on specialized MB forums:
The PART W mux(SD connect C4) is and Ethernet/wifi connected system and that is the reason for use on other laptops—the issue is the operating system currently DAS Xentry only runs on XP.
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According to the customer feedback, Dell D630 is the most popular for MB STAR C3 or MB SD CONNECT COMPACT C4.