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General Mach Discussion / Buying a laptop for Mach 3

« on: August 17, 2010, 01:37:22 PM »

I was reading about Mach 3's minimum requirements and saw that Mach 3 is notorious for not running well (or not running period) for laptops. I will need to use a laptop if I'm to be able to operate my mill in the shop environment I work in. I did a quick search on the forum here and saw that indeed it is possible to use a laptop to run Mach 3, but just very tricky. I'll be purchasing a used laptop and I was wondering what would be the big requirements to use Mach 3 on a laptop without much trouble? I understand the power saving features on laptops would for sure be a problem, and that since laptops virtually always have video cards built into the motherboard it can cause some issues as well, but are there any other big things I need to watch out for?