What PC are you running for your Lightburn, CAD, etc. apps?

My small laptop seems to be struggling under all these new app for laser and CNC work.
I was wondering what you guys are ‘coping’ with?

a 2021 intel macbook-pro 16" fully loaded and a win7 ibm thinkpad from 2006. and on both the performance is excellent. i think lightburn is a very performant and resource saving coded application.

self made pc ryzen 3500- 32gb ram and radeon rx560, all works like a charm

Off-lease Dell Optiplex desktops dating back to the previous financial crisis.

AFAICT, LightBurn isn’t all that demanding, although Inkscape and GIMP can use all the RAM you throw at them.

Same here, ancient PC with 4gb ram, on Linux Mint. No other programs installed on this computer. I do all construction work on a Macbook Pro (from 2014) and send the files over LAN. Runs very well.

Currently an i5 Intel running Ubuntu in the house …

Have a friends 10+ year old machine after he upgraded, running Ubuntu, out in the garage with the laser. It does fine but bogs a little with very complex artwork. Removing the overlapping lines is not as quick as the inside machine, but the machine cost me nothing…

Seems to run on both platforms fine.

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Nice to hear that many of you are running “light-weight” machines!
I was running an HP Pavilion laptop, Win 10, 4Mb RAM
It was actually working well but, being new to both laser and router CNC I loaded a whole bunch of programs on it so I could decide what worked for me.
Of course, it eventually slowed down and today I am running a Reset on it.
Program wise, I settled for Lightburn because it does everything I want and it is (reasonably) easy to understand and is actually affordable.
For Router work I was getting on with Carbide Create but then they stopped the ability to download/convert G-code and, and a non-profit hobbyist, there was no way I could justify paying for it.
Same with Easel. It’s just far too much unless one is making money from it.
Anyway, settled on Estlcam for Router work but, like I say, I am so pleased with LightBurn. Thank goodness for a reasonable price.