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

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