I ended up buying an Acer Aspire 5 from Walmart, specifically the: Upgradability – The laptop I chose can have RAM, and the M.2 SSD upgraded and it has an un-used place for a 2.5″ SSD SATA drive.Buying a computer by mail can be a horrible PITA if something goes wrong. Availability – I wanted a computer I could run to the store and get and return if necessary.I only want to use this to run VCarve Software. Cost – Always the first consideration.My CNC is in a back yard shed which is either too hot or too cold and I want to do all my prep and design work in the house and run out with the laptop just when it is time to set up the job on the machine.Ī new Windows laptop was really my only choice here. And it isn’t portable as I have it on a Mac Mini. By the way, Parallels on a Mac M1 runs about as efficiently and trustworthy as the Government. The only computers I own with Windows on it are an old 3rd generation Intel i3 laptop with a tiny amount of RAM and a copy of Windows 10 on Parallels for Mac M1. The best CNC software, hands down, comes from Vectric, and the new CNC machine I bought comes with Vectric VCarve Desktop. While I can function on most of the hardware platforms with Mac, the straw that broke the camels back was my newly found love of CNC. These things all have Mac or Linux software of some kind but the cream of the crop software is written for Windows. I have a lot of hobby type hardware such as Lasers, Vinyl sign machines, 3D printers, and CNC machines. All this being said I am also a Maker, or we used to say in the old days…….a Geek.
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