[darkpuppet]

I personally prefer the flasher... it's a pain in the arse swapping programs on either if you need updated tunes.. but at least you don't have to fiddle around pulling the chip and whatnot with the handheld flasher.

at least with the flasher it's
1) update program on flasher
2) reflash car

instead of
1) pull chip
2) flash chip (or mail away)
3) reinstall chip

in my opinion, if you do mail order, the predator is a very attractive solution... you get the flasher, it does the datalogging which can be sent back to the shop, and then you get a updated tune... that's pretty sweat.

But then again, mail order tunes are getting better and better, especially with SCT so it appears, and sometimes a multi-tune chip will be good enough to save you the hassle of not having to ship it back, while offering easily selectable tunes.

guess it all depends on what kind of features you're looking for.