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Title: Sony laptop
Post by: Ron on April 05, 2006, 05:37:53 PM

I am getting into the cnc router - mach 3...Can I use a sony laptop to run the machine...thanks...any other computer suggestions would be appreciated.....

Title: Re: Sony laptop
Post by: Brian Barker on April 05, 2006, 06:13:40 PM

Laptops are not the best to run Mach on... Some work and some don't... Anyone have laptops that run out there?

Title: Re: Sony laptop
Post by: Ron on April 05, 2006, 08:10:30 PM

Thanks....Is 512 MB enough to run Bobcat nc router..Thanks

Title: Re: Sony laptop
Post by: thunterman on April 06, 2006, 08:19:22 AM

I'm running on a HP N3310 500MHZ laptop with WinXP. Has 196meg of mem, 4.3G hard drive & Wifi. Have many services disabled. Seems to drive Mach3 just fine

Title: Re: Sony laptop
Post by: elegler on April 07, 2006, 01:30:13 PM

I just installed Mach3 on a new HP nc6120 running Windows XP Professional.  After a hint from Art that I should try the optimisation guide I got things running.  I selected the HP nc6120 because it is one of the only new notebooks on the market that still has a parallel port.  Everything else seems to be going USB.

Hope this helps,

Ed

Title: Re: Sony laptop
Post by: AlanETM on April 07, 2006, 04:27:52 PM

I am running Mach3 on a "Toshiba satellite" laptop 1.7Gh processor, 512Mb RAM, Windows XP, using single parallel port output/input via a CNC4PC parallel breakout board.
No Antivirus software running.
Seems OK so far.

Title: Re: Sony laptop
Post by: Halfnutz on April 08, 2006, 08:45:36 PM

Is anti virus software an issue?  I would imagine it could be a problem.