Minimum pc specs with Smooth stepper.

[WEMME]

Hello Does anyone know what the mimimum pc specs for mach3 with Smooth stepper are?
Obviously the spec for Mach3 using a parallel port will be much more demanding than with smooth stepper.

Regards
Bart

[Hood]

Just a case of try and see I suppose, the most important thing is likely to be whether the USB is good enough or not. I have used a Toshiba Satellite with 256meg memory and a 700MHz processor and it worked fine.
Hood

[WEMME]

Ok Thanks,
I'm eyeing up a touch screeen pc with simlar specs using xp tablet.
Regards
Bart

[Hood]

Oh maybe worth saying was the laptop has W2K on it, XP would need a bit more memory I would think.
 As for small PCs, I use the Via Pico on my lathe and mill, its (or was, not sure if it still is) the smallest mobo you could buy, it measures 100mm x 72mm and is not much bigger than the smoothstepper itself. Its a 1Gig embedded CPU and I have 1 Gig memory on them. Below is a pic of the one in the mills cabinet, arrow pointing to mobo and SS.

Hood

[RICH]

Notice how nice and neat Hood's wiring , etc is inside the controller.
I bet the shop is the same!

RICH

[RICH]

Bart,
These days I don't think using an old dead dog of a PC is worth it since you can get used pc's that are fast and with a lot of memory cheaply . BTW i run the SS with a 400MHZ laptop and 256 memory, XP pro, once in a while.

RICH

[Hood]

Notice how nice and neat Hood's wiring , etc is inside the controller.
I bet the shop is the same!

RICH

Think you are taking the p*** there, you have obviously seen the pics
Hood

[RICH]

 YEP   
RICH

[Hood]

Well I have news for you, its actually got a bit of a view of the floor at the moment, I got my old workshop (GRP cabin) moved accross behind the workshop now and have a lot of the stock and general crap moved into it.

Hood

[RICH]

I hear ya, just like mine probably, in that when you run out of floor space, the stuff goes vertical or is hung from the ceilling.  
RICH