[Tom Line]

How many startup processes do you have running on the PC? Is this a PC that kids have access to on a regular basis: i.e. has it been loaded full of non-robotics related garbage that is slowing it down?

I only ask because We've used a 1.4 ghz celeron Dell Lattitude 510 with 512 of ram (now a 1.6 pentium M Lattitude 600) with absolutely no issues performance wise. The first thing I did was to wipe the computer to clean off all the fun programs (limewire, etc etc etc) that tend to get installed.