[Elecraft] suggested PC???

[Brian Denley]

My i7 iMac runs Windows 7 as well as OSX.  With 32 Gb of memory, I can run any Windows or Apple applications.  I don't have a K3 but the iMac runs my K2 and FT-950 applications with no issues whatsoever.  I can upgrade to Win 10 for free but I dislike it very much.

Brian 
KB1VBF
Sent from my iPad

> On Jan 5, 2016, at 9:26 PM, Barry LaZar <k3ndm at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Randy,
>    I seriously do not recommend this approach. I have been working with a friend who has been working on a Mac Mini, actually he has two. He has been trying to do an integrated station using HRD, FLDIGI, and a few other things. These are Windows based and he has been using Boot Camp to get to Windows. He discovered that there are driver issues and a few other things the prevent easy set up to do what he wants. And to compound the insult, his second Mac Mini does does not set up like his first.
> 
>    Most of the really good software that makes for full integration easy has been written for a Windows platform. As this is the case, I suggest an I5 with lots of memory running Windows 10. In the end, this is cost effective and will keep your blood pressure in bounds. As an illustration, I run Win4K3 for radio control and spectrum display, Com0com for port replication, Hamradio Deluxe for general logging and uploading to eQSL and LoTW, CW Skimmer. I switch out CW Skimmer for FLDIGI, and during a contest, I use N1MM+ in place of HRD. My experience has taught me to not use an Apple base system for this situation. However, there are other collections of S/W, but I expect the integration my not be as easy.
> 
> 73,
> Barry
> K3NDM
> 
> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "Randy Cook" <k6crcus at gmail.com>
> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: 1/5/2016 8:35:48 PM
> Subject: [Elecraft] suggested PC???
> 
>> Consider an Apple Mac. On the Apple website, you can get a iMac or MacBook Air ‘refurbished’. After years of dealing with viruses, blown updates, buggy software, etc. on work computers, I come home to a 5 year old MacBook Air machine that just works and will probably run forever. I like MacLoggerDX for station control/logging, but others have their favorite.
>> As to value, I just sold an iMac desktop machine that my son didn’t need anymore. He is at college and has a laptop. It was 6 years old and I got 40% of the price I paid new for it on eBay. If it were a 6 year old PC, I would have had to pay a toxic waste fee to get rid of it.
>> 
>> 73
>> 
>> Randy Cook - K6CRC
>> k6crcus at gmail.com
>> 
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