I haven't heard of any good stories using laptops. The parallel ports seem to work on a lower voltage and laptops have a harder time generating the pulses due to power saving, etc.
Perhaps I am wrong, but I would recommend using a desktop PC. Andy Marcin Jakubowski wrote: > Dear Group, > > Can someone point me to what brands of laptops have good compatibility > with LinuxCNC, and what distribution of Linux you would recommend? I'm > looking for a laptop, and want to make sure that it will work well with > LinuxCAD for an CNC acetylene torch table that we're building. > > Thanks, > > Marcin > http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Torch_Table > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Andy PGP Key ID: 0x67090A54 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
