I used an Acer Aspire 5720-4126 dual CPU notebook at field day with my Flex-5000 and ran the field day logging software at the same time. I did decrease the sample rate from the normal 192000 to 96000, but that is the same as the Flex-3000 maximum sample rate, I believe.
The Acer has a built in firewire port that works fine. I also used an external LCD monitor in conjunction with the screen display for dual displays and all ran fine. The Acer came with Vista installed and that is the OS I ran with all updates installed from Microsoft. I also ran VAC and vspMgr. Perhaps you can find one used. It is about 6 years old. 73, Bill NJ1H On 11/2/2013 5:50 PM, Tim Lemmon wrote:
Hey everyone. I'm considering the idea of using a laptop with my 3000 for portable ops. Seems finding a decent laptop with an ExpressCard port for Firewire isn't easy. I've looked at yard sales and today at a local hamfest. No joy. Curious what others are using to run PowerSDR on a laptop? I'm not interested in anything Windows 8, and I'm not interested in spending a lot of money. I do remember the 1000 days using a Pentium IV and how I really had to tune the computer to make everything work well :) I suppose a dual core laptop would get the job done today? Maybe an i3 instead? Not sure how much L2 or L3 cache these processors even have. Any recommendations from others that are successfully using a laptop with PowerSDR are welcome. Thanks. Tim, WK4U _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
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