In general, notebook computers are optimized for size and battery life. But Linux based CNC is running in Raspberry Pi and even smaller and lower performance computers and dong fine. Performance is not needed. What is needed is low latency real-time performance.
On Sun, Dec 1, 2019 at 4:03 AM Nicklas Karlsson < nicklas.karlsso...@gmail.com> wrote: > Checked once and concluded in general Laptops is a little bit more > expensive and have a little bit less perfomance in some combination. > Internal expansion ports are also limited. > > This should come as no suprise unless ordinary computer is similar in > size. In general a smaller diameter 2.5 inch should be expected to have > less storage capacity than a 3.5 inch, there is also a need to limit power > use. > > Think 3D graphics card may detoriate real time perfomance, large burst > transfer of memory block databus? > > > > Hey guys. > > > > I saw that some guys are using laptops with linuxcnc. I only want them > for > > testing. Just wondering what laptops are good and any tricks to set it > > up. I'm using Mesa pci cards so that might be a problem with a laptop. > > But any ideas would be appreciated. > > > > Regards. > > Andrew > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
