I am using a Macbook on my Flex3K when I get away fro m the shack and
a MacMini on my Flex5K in the shack. I used to use a Dell on the 5K
but it was slow and would lock up.
I am very Happy with the Mac's.
Toby K7ABP
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Ruben Navarro Huedo
<runa...@gmail.com <mailto:runa...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Is anybody using a Macbook (non pro)?
Jim Jerzycke escribió:
I'm using an older HP Pavilion laptop with an AMD Athlon X64
single-core.
It works fine, even the built-in firewire.
Jim KQ6EA
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From: Mack <mccormick_m...@hotmail.com
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Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Toshiba Satellite U400 (now which
laptop)
To: "Ruben Navarro Huedo" <runa...@gmail.com
<mailto:runa...@gmail.com>>, "Tim Ellison"
<telli...@itsco.com <mailto:telli...@itsco.com>>
Cc: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz
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Date: Sunday, August 16, 2009, 6:43 AM
The only laptop that I've had flawless performance from is
the
Macintosh MacBook Pro running bootcamp and XP. Follow the
article
carefully in the Flex KB to configure.
73,
Mack de WB4MAK
www.nfarl.org <http://www.nfarl.org>
www.sedxc.org <http://www.sedxc.org>
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Subject: [Flexradio] Toshiba Satellite U400 (now which
laptop)
> I see i have to change my laptop.
> My question now is:
> What laptop are you using (without problems) with your
flex radio?
>
>
>
> Tim Ellison escribió:
>> "Firewire is sharing IRQ with video card and one usb
port. I
don't know hot to change irq in the laptop."
>>
>> This is probably your issue. With ACPI motherboards
along with
the ACPI Windows HAL, you can't really change the IRQ
assignments. Some BIOS allow a little latitude in this area,
most don't.
>>
>> The reality of this situation is that a lot of laptops
are not
going to be well suited for use as a hardware platform for
real-time
audio processing. Laptops are deigned for (a) battery life
and (b)
portability. Those design goals are achieved at the expense
of I/O
and processor performance. Occasionally you will run into a
laptop
that works just fine. Other times you can get a laptop that
has the
best specs in the world and is touted to be a "multi
media" high
performance machine and it just plain stinks up the place
when
running PowerSDR. I have one of the later machines from
Dell.
>>
>> It looks like you have done all the right things as
far as
performance tuning.
>>
>> Is the version of Windows installed on the laptop one
that came
from Toshiba or did you load it yourself from a retail CD? I
have
found that loading the OS myself eliminates any of the
integrator
installed "fluff" programs that they include for usability or
support and those get in the way of a laptop being able to
reach
it's highest performance potential. I know Neal (K3NC) is
looking
into a laptop optimized for PowerSDR, but due to low demand
and high
cost may not be offering it as a product.
(http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/proddetail.php?prod=answc001)
>>
>> One other thing you can try is to use the on-board
Firewire
interface and see if that works any better.
>>
>> Good luck.
>>
>> -Tim
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