Hi,
to get a licence for any given PC you have to supply the unique PCID. Normally you would do this by saving the PCID to the
clipboard, logging on to the NFS wesite Licencing page and paste the PCID. If you don't have an internet connection for the
PC you are trying to licence you could save the PCID (of the target machine) on a thumb drive, and then on another PC that
has a connection paste the target PCID into the licencing page. You would then receive the licence files on your connected
PC which would have to be transfered by thumb drive back to the target machine.
You should be able to run your machine from your laptop even if only in demo. Provided you can hook the ESS to the laptop
and have it communuicate it should run your machine. In demo it will only run for six minutes before requiring a restart.
Note that you can have up to five PCs licenced for one Mach4Hobby purchase. So you can have both your machine licenced
and your laptop.
Craig