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[Patrick Campbell]

Any recommendations for a touch screen laptop to run this with the Martin Dongle

Thanks guys and gals

[TJ (Tom) Cornish]

Any recommendations for a touch screen laptop to run this with the Martin Dongle

Thanks guys and gals

The larger the screen the better, and HiDPI if possible.  Nothing else matters very much - MPC doesn't take any significant computing power.

[Steve Litcher]

+1 on what Tom said.

We bought a 13" Dell touchscreen (i5379) and I wish I would've purchased a 15" or 17" instead. It's coupled to a 24" Dell P2418HT monitor during larger shows, and that's great. But for smaller gigs, when we bring just the laptop, I wish the screen were slightly larger.

There's a Martin lighting guru who lives near us, and he's using a 7-8 year old AMD-based laptop with great results. Get the largest screen you can, and don't worry about too much else.

[William Schnake]

Patrick, glad to hear you are going with M-PC.  If you need help I can get you in touch with Bob, my LD/Monitor guy.

Bill

[Mike Karseboom]

If you have a spare iPad you can use that to increase your screen real estate.  If you set it up as a fader bank you can you can increase your independent fader banks from 1 to  2.

[Dave Garoutte]

I'm running M-PC on a 12" Surface with a Martin M-Touch side pad.  Works fine.
I'm actually thinking of selling the setup because it's really too much for what I need.
I started playing with Luminair and that is going to work better for my simple setup.

[Jeffrey Knorr - JRKLabs.com]

Any recommendations for a touch screen laptop to run this with the Martin Dongle

Thanks guys and gals

I'd vote for the fastest machine that you can get with the largest touch screen possible.  It's also very helpful to have more than one monitor.  We're running it on a i5 Desktop with a 24" Touchscreen and M-Touch.  Also, get an SSD hard drive!

Jeff

[Matt Greiner]

I use a Dell Latitude XT3.  It's a i5 2.5GHz and I have 8 GB of RAM with an SSD.  Even though it's a smaller monitor, it is a touch screen.  I do most of my programming with my larger 24" touch screen ahead of time and then just run the shows from this XT3.  I use a M-Touch or M-Play (or both) for my shows.

I agree that a larger screen is definitely an advantage.

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