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Unread 03-06-2010, 21:21
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specs for a "good" progamming laptop
Our old programming laptop burned up (quite literally. A fan broke) and now one of our sponsors is donating a new one to us. I have most of the stuff figured out that we need on the new one (USB ports, wireless card, coffee dispenser, etc) but I'm unsure about what kind of CPU and RAM would be good to run the FIRST software. Any suggestions would be appreciated

Using Windriver C++ and occasionally LabVIEW

One more question primarily directed at NI/FIRST: How do the development tools run on Vista/7 and are there plans to make 7 the officially supported OS in the near future?
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