Buying a new laptop

Community Laser Talk
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Buying a new laptop. Very new with Lightburn and Atomstack. Limited budget. what are the minimum requirements for the laptop to run Lightburn without issues? Thx

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Pretty much any laptop will do. Screen resolution was my only problem. Getting windows to dock and losing layer palette at bottom.

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I use a 10-year-old ThinkPad. Works perfectly fine. Though, don’t use Chromebooks, I think those don’t work well with LightBurn. Any Laptop running Windows will do.

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If you like using Chromebooks and Linux, go right ahead. I’ve used Chromebooks exclusively and without real issue for years… primarily nicer Acer and Samsung with Intel I3/I5 processors, 14"-15" screen, and 4G or more RAM. Put them in Developer mode to get at the Debian 11 (“bullseye”) underneath and download one of the LightBurn-Linux64-vx.x.xx.run images.

It’s been a year or two since I’ve gotten a new Chromebook but it’s possible you may need to install a library or two to get Lightburn to launch but, once done, it works like a champ!