I've had techs up here twice working on my versacamm printer/ cutter...and they ALL use a laptop to run the system during testing and all that. And the operating program for THAT baby calls for minimum ONE GIG OF RAM to operate. I tried it on a computer with 636 (had some extra chips in it) and if we touched any key while printing- it would screw up! So we just boosted that one to 1 gig, bought another with 2 gig and THAT works fine. But I need 1 computer just for the graphic program alone-can't tie up 1 with designing AND printing... Go for the ram-all you can stuff into your computer-it IS cheap and usually a top notch computer supplier will throw in FREE ram upgrades. Roland Sunrise Graphics 116 Main St Claremont, NH 03743 603-543-1324 fax 603-543-9902 (fax machine is NOT turned on 24/7-only during normal business hours Mon-Fri., 8 am -5 pm) www.sunrisegraphics.org signman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx On Apr 29, 2006, at 4:58 AM, Russell Silva wrote: > The bus speed on a laptop is a lot slower also. My laptop has a > 3GHz Pentium > 4 processor and 512mb of ram, my IT guy says that a laptop just can't > compete with a regular PC. > > Russell > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve Cohen" <steve208321@xxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 7:50 PM > Subject: [amayausers] Re: What PC is needed to run Amaya XT? > > >> >> The reason your laptop is slower is because the RPM (Rotations per >> minute) >> on your hard drive is slower on laptops. It has always been this way. >> Laptops run at 4200rpm or 5400rpm while desktops run at 7200rpm. >> Some of >> the newer desktops run at 10,000rpm. There are other factors as >> well such >> as how many processes are running, CPU speed, RAM, etc. but hard >> drive >> speed is very important if you use the computer a lot. >> >> From: "Russell Silva" <russell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:13:18 -0400 Hi Steve, >> >> Are you sure it is 120mb of ram, it should be 128, 256, 512 or >> combinations of those number added together. Windows XP recommends a >> minimum >> of 256mb but 512mb is really the preferred minimum, if you have >> less then >> 512mb upgrade ram is cheap. >> As far as running your Amaya's on the laptop, I found that the OS ran >> slower >> on my high end laptop then it does on my low end tower PC but your >> laptop >> should run the machines fine. Just my opinion. >> _________________________________________________________________ >> Join the next generation of Hotmail and you could win the >> adventure of a >> lifetime >> http://www.imagine-msn.com/minisites/sweepstakes/mail/register.aspx > > >