[TLE]

I wanted to put my cutter out in my shop it is behind my house, but I wanted to be able to use the computer in the house for some of the design work, how can I take it to the cutter, can I use a laptop to take to cutter or does the cutter need to stay pluged in to a computer all the time. Hope this makes seens any help would be great.

 

[dawnpoetic]

I use my cutter with my laptop a lot. My laptop does not stay in my shop...I carry it everywhere with me. I've never had a problem. Don't see any reason it should be an issue.

 

[tdeals]

I wanted to put my cutter out in my shop it is behind my house, but I wanted to be able to use the computer in the house for some of the design work, how can I take it to the cutter, can I use a laptop to take to cutter or does the cutter need to stay pluged in to a computer all the time. Hope this makes seens any help would be great.

You must plug a cutter to your computer for you to send jobs to it. But, when you're not using the cutter, you can unplug it from your computer.

 

[charles95405]

you can use the laptop assuming you have the software on it also. I don't believe you can cut anything with the laptop without the cutting software on the unit

 

[TLE]

So I can just use a lap top and just plug it in when I am ready to cut, but when I plug the cutter back in to the computer do I have to do anything so that it will see the cutter like reset anything, or should it just plug in and nothing to do just cut.
also any sug on a good but resonable price laptop I would load corel,photoshop,sincutx2, on it so it would able to do design work like to stay pc. Thank you alot!!

 

[charles95405]

yes you are correct...connect or disconnect...not a problem Most any decent computer will work BUT HERE MAY be a problem...I think all new computers come with WinVista OS...and not all programs and/or devices have drivers for Vista So I would check with the manufacturer of the cutter to make sure that it AND the software supports Vista operation

 

[sunnydayz]

I have a Dell Vostro, and the reason I bought it, was that I was able to purchase it with windows xp. Its also a business system so built a little better then the home based systems. Hope this helps

 

[charles95405]

I had heard that dell had...or was about to stop furnishing XP at customers request..something about Microsoft being unhappy with this ..but worth a try

 

[sunnydayz]

You are right about that Charles, they dont allow it on any of their home computers, but they do have a couple of Business systems that they will install it for you, they also give you the disk for vista to upgrade to later if you wish. It was really hard to find any system with xp that had the hardware I wanted, so I ordered the vostros from dell and had it built the way I wanted it. I do think the Vostros was one of the only one of two different systems you could get the xp on.

Here is a link for the systems they will install xp on http://www.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/vostronb?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd

 

[nascarbob]

The XP option should be available for a while still. Our federal govt, and many large companies will not buy vista yet.

 

[ambitious]

Ha Ha I wish i would of new of this a while back, i spend a whole day trying to install my cutting software into vista with no success. I hate vista for that, XP rocks!

 

[Chevmeister]

If you get vista Professional or business you can roll back to Xp for free. Best part is when they stop supporting xp you are already vista licensed and can upgrade at no cost.

 

[sunnydayz]

That is similar to the way it works with dell. They install a copy of licensed xp, but also give you a licensed copy of vista for when ever you want to install it later.