I'm very sorry to hear this, but glad I did before I spent money for a machine that was not going to work.
Thanks for the bad news. At 7:34 PM -0600 11-15-09, Chris Radek wrote: >On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 02:59:26PM -0800, Bryan Mumford wrote: >> >> Can't do a latency test on a mail order Dell. How likely am I to have >> this problem, and is there no work-around? > >Very likely. > >There is no work-around because it's a hardware/BIOS issue, not >software. > >Buying a new laptop mail-order for use with EMC is a very bad idea >in my opinion. > >If you can, take a live CD to a local used-computers-and-stuff shop >and boot their dirt-cheap P3 systems until you find one that gives >good latency results. Then run EMC/AXIS and see if the machine has >working OpenGL. If you are near an AP (you will be, if they sell >laptops with wireless), see if that works. Bonus: parallel ports >galore. If you find one, fill it with as much RAM as it will handle >and it'll be plenty fast enough for EMC. > >My local shop had no problem with me testing machines for Linux >compatibility this way. > >You will almost certainly not find a realtime-capable laptop by >chance. You must test them. -- Bryan Mumford ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
