Notebooks as PM clients ?

[Nick1150]

Just wondering... has anyone tried this yet ?

Thanks,

[skino]

Why not? My PM is fast and stable on a 800 Mhz machine with 32 Mb of onboard graphics and 512 mb ram

[Nick1150]

Well my only concern would be the graphic card as far as resolution is concerned... most notebooks have 1280x600

[skino]

I use 1024x768. I am an old man, i need big letters.
The laptop runs PM CDU and EICAS. In the background is also still running FDC Livecockpit.

[Nick1150]

Hi there,

I did a test with GC and my HP-mini-110 notebook today... unfortunately the test gave me a low quality graphics result...

So I guest notebooks is not the way IMHO

[nax228]

Tough luck.
Looking towards 3-4 more desktops then i guess...

[skino]

Here is a screenshot of my PM (Sim is not running)



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The resolution is 1024x768x16

[Nick1150]

Tough luck.
Looking towards 3-4 more desktops then i guess...

Well,

I am not decided yet... In fact, I am nowhere near my decision !!!

The facts are that my 2 Sony Vaio VGN-C1S laptops with the following characteristics are more than enough....

Sony Vaio VGN-C1S
Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 (1,66GHz, 667MHz FSB,Intel 945GM Express Chipset, L2 Cache memory 2048Kb)
2x 512MB DDR2 533 MHz RAM
100GB 5400rpm SATA
DVD+-RW (Supporting DVD+-R DL/RAM)
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 128MB (Shared)

The second fact is that I need a third laptop, preferably the same one as above. We are talking about a more than 3 years old... In eBay the cost something like 100-1500 euro, and most probably this week I will buy a used one for the EICAS

[Nick1150]

Here is a screenshot of my PM (Sim is not running)



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The resolution is 1024x768x16

Yes I know Skino ...

The notebook problem is not the resolution, but the low speed of the graphics card and the processor... I tried it and the result was 62 in PM glass cockpit rating. Anything above 150 would be acceptable.

[Sean Nixon]

PM runs great on a 6 year old Centrino laptop I have, but rubbish on a 1 year old netbook. I'd have thought given the progress made in the 5 year gap, they'd be similar.