I currently using an Intel based I7 win 7 64 bit desktop I built for a cad/ design pc, I'm using FlashCuts 501 signal generator via usb. I've been getting a lot of "can't connect to signal generator" errors while running g code so I was thinking about using an old Dell laptop just to run the g code, It's a core 2 duo 8 gig ram 120 ssd and I could install a fresh copy of xp or 7. And I could just network the files over to it.
Any thoughts or suggestions?