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Is my laptop good enough to work well with a FLEX-5000?
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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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Personally I would look for at least 4 cores or 2 cores with 2 threads/core .0
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No It's too Slow CPU and You Need at least 4 gigs of ram..
I bought a HP for 249.00 at Tiger Direct it it runs my Flex 3000 with no problems at all..You can find it here.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=8686407&CatId=2628
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Can't hardly beat this for the price and 1 year warranty...and FREE SHIPPING
http://www.ebay.com/itm/DELL-DUAL-CORE-3-0-GHZ-DESKTOP-COMPUTER-PC-4GB-RAM-1TB-HDD-WINDOWS-7-PRO-64-...
and a SIIG fire wire card...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SIIG-FireWire-PCI-Card-2-Port-PCI-FireWire-Card-/400772057677?pt=US_Internal...
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Thank you all for your helpful replies.0
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