I just wanted to give a SHOUT OUT to Gateway and XP. 
I use QuickShow to control my X-Laser at school shows and have now added FreeStyler software to control my new Chauvet Intimidator 255 IRC moving heads. Both are installed on my music back-up laptop which is a 10 year old XP Gateway MX6956 laptop (1.60GHz Intel Core Duo T2050). I upgraded the original 160GB internal HD to 500GB a few years back and also upgraded the RAM to 2GB (max for this board!) to create this workhorse. I got both programs up and running with the DMX dongle, Pangolin dongle and associated fixtures attached and it performed beyond expectations with the processor registering between 15 to 24%s during a full work case scenario. *See photo. I only wish I would have run Mixmeister Pro 5 as well to see the results. Since it uses very little resources, it would have probably bumped it up another 10% at most. I actually use the exact same model laptop to run Mixmeister on at gigs. I bought a super powerful Windows 7 laptop (i7, 8GB RAM, 2GB Nvidia graphics card) a couple years ago to upgrade to but never bothered making the switch, guess I should one day soon.
Thanks Gateway and XP for being ROCK solid all these years!
I use QuickShow to control my X-Laser at school shows and have now added FreeStyler software to control my new Chauvet Intimidator 255 IRC moving heads. Both are installed on my music back-up laptop which is a 10 year old XP Gateway MX6956 laptop (1.60GHz Intel Core Duo T2050). I upgraded the original 160GB internal HD to 500GB a few years back and also upgraded the RAM to 2GB (max for this board!) to create this workhorse. I got both programs up and running with the DMX dongle, Pangolin dongle and associated fixtures attached and it performed beyond expectations with the processor registering between 15 to 24%s during a full work case scenario. *See photo. I only wish I would have run Mixmeister Pro 5 as well to see the results. Since it uses very little resources, it would have probably bumped it up another 10% at most. I actually use the exact same model laptop to run Mixmeister on at gigs. I bought a super powerful Windows 7 laptop (i7, 8GB RAM, 2GB Nvidia graphics card) a couple years ago to upgrade to but never bothered making the switch, guess I should one day soon.
Thanks Gateway and XP for being ROCK solid all these years!
