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Is my laptop good enough to work well with a FLEX-5000?

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Perma Geek
Perma Geek Member
edited January 2020 in FLEX Series (Legacy) Radios

I am considering buying a used FLEX-5000 (with Automatic Tuner, RX2 second receiver, and VHF/UHF module), and need to assess whether my laptop will work well with it (see brief specs below, and full specs here).

This laptop (plus a second monitor) would be virtually dedicated to running the radio, so I can control the OS configuration and other installed software to minimize competing DPCs. I’d need to buy an ExpressCard FireWire adapter, as this laptop doesn’t have an integrated FireWire port.

  • Processor: Intel® Pentium® T3400, 2.16GHz, 1MB L2 cache, 667MHz FSB
  • Chipset : Mobile Intel® GL40 Express
  • Memory: 3GB PC6400 DDR2 SDRAM
  • Storage: 250GB (5400 RPM) SATA HDD
  • Display: 17.0" widescreen TFT LCD (1440x900)
  • Graphics: Mobile Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500M with 128MB-1342MB dynamically allocated shared graphics memory

I'd appreciate any thoughts you may have... thanks in advance!

73, Gregg

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