Well, I finally took the plunge and bought BCC V21. I now have to decide what to do about my host computer. I do not currently own a Windows machine, I have always used Mac. My question is, would it be better to use my big Powermac G5 dual core graphics workstation with an emulator program like Vitual PC for the Bobcad/cam, and buy a PC for the mach 3, or should I run both of them on the same machine?
And if I do decide to run a single machine for both pieces of software, would it be possible to run them both on a laptop that I could simply "dpck" at the CNC machine when its being run, or would I be better off just putting a junker Mach 3 PC out in the shop (non climate controlled garage in Florida)?
Ideally, I would like to run BCC on my Mac, and just spend a couple hundred on a "hardened" machine for the CNC controller, but I have no idea what to expect from BCC as far as stability. I also have no idea how to move the files to the controller from the main machine if I do that...