DSP controller questions, Will this work well with Deskproto as my CAM software?

[irving2008]

Mach3 is not supported on laptops. In general laptops and CNC don't play well together if you want reliability. It can be made to work if you reconfigure the machine as a desktop and remove all power management features. Virtual XP is a def no no - you have no control of the underlying hardware - and upgrading W7 would be a waste of money. Btw if you want a virtual pc for other reasons, e.g. testing software safely or playing with Linux then download Oracle Virtualbox for free.

You're better off buying a cheap XP machine off fleabay or gumtree but £150 is stupid money, you can do better.