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.....

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

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

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

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

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.

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