Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Mach3 & laptops

'K looks like the system has an AMD Geode NX 1750 (1.4GHz) processor,
40GB HDD, and 655360K RAM. Good?

Well the price was right... free! Now I've got 3 systems I picked up
and the other 2 are totally obsolete/missing stuff. Huh now that I'm
looking at it this may need a new power supply it doesn't wanna start
after it's been running we'll work on that. But when I had it running
it loaded up and all, problem was it had a password-protected install of
NT so I couldn't do much.

Danny

gcode fi (hanermo) wrote:

>
> Danny - its a common problem.
>
> Over last 5- years, I have seen laptops tried by lots of people.
> Art, the sw creator, says laptops cause 99% of all support requests.
> Ie they are 100x more likely to not work than a given desktop.
>
> There are lots of good technical reasons, Jon E, who is very good at
> this stuff, explained some well.
> And the reasons really are technical ie valid and immutable.
>
> Conclusion - don´t try laptops, of if you do, many (exasperated) people
> will say we warned you.
> A mini-itx is good and cheap, like the shuttle boxes.
> Any cheap box is fine - add a video card if it does not work with
> onboard. Onboard may be fine, many are.
>
> At least 1 ghz processor, around 2 ghz is good.
>
> xp is easiest / most common. win2k may be ok. Few use it and driver
> support is so-so.
> Vista is bad but doable.
>
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