Laptop for CNC Controll

[JAZZCNC]

Well I've got a laptop so I'll get a PCMCIA -> Parallel card and give it a try. Only costs £10. I'll let you know how I get on.

I'm sure I've seen a post on the Yahoo forum that said it can't be done with PCMCIA .? I'll try and find it for you.

It's not the battery it's the power mangement and the fact some laptops have cpu's that have built in energy features that can't be disabled, even then if you have one that doesn't it's more than just turning off the screen savers etc and you have to go deep into windows to clear out any process's etc that can interupt the cpu etc because Mach's driver does some very "naughty" things inside windows to do it's magic.!

I've seen lots of people say they have a laptop working but soon realise it's not actually working correctly because they get dropped steps etc from hidden process's etc that interupt the pulses.

[JAZZCNC]

Ok just had a quick nosey about and couldn't find it but I have found instances of people who are using PCMCIA cards ok so like you say give it a shot for a tenner.!

This one has actually got a review from someone using it with Mach3 Amazon.com : StarTech Parallel Port PCMCIA Card : Electronics