Laptops

[snoopy1239]

Hi. Have Parallels on my Mac, but something is wrong with it and the connection is intermiitent.

Does anyone have a cheap laptop they want to sell? Is there anywhere I could by a cheap one? Is Ebay a good idea?

All I need it for is to download a poker site, multitable 4 tables and use Poker Tracker 3 with a wifi connection. That's it. What's minimum requirements?

any advice much appreciated.

[snoopy1239]

Have been considering getting something from this dude on ebay:

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/merchant/valuelaptops_W0QQ_nkwZQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZQQ_mdoZ

Good idea?

[kinboshi]

I'd say no.

[Bongo]

Fix your existing one?

Is the problem just in parallels or Mac as a whole?

Have you downloaded the latest version of parallels and installed the tools?

[Bongo]

Most second hand laptops are going to have 0 battery life, especially on ebay (they'd flog the decent batts separately).

[snoopy1239]

I'd say no.

Why do you say that?

[snoopy1239]

Most second hand laptops are going to have 0 battery life, especially on ebay (they'd flog the decent batts separately).

I'm not too worried about the battery life to be honest. I'd always be near a plug. I literally just need it for playing poker in my room, nothing else.

[kinboshi]

Well, Bongo's mentioned battery life.

Then there's the small hard drives, lack of memory and far from 'current' processors.  Screens aren't great either.

Wouldn't fancy PT running on them when the database is a decent size.

[snoopy1239]

Fix your existing one?

Is the problem just in parallels or Mac as a whole?

Have you downloaded the latest version of parallels and installed the tools?

The problem's just in Parallels. I could try reinstalling Parallels and Windows, but it's a pain in the arse and I have the cheap (no manual, no customer service) edition of windows and am worried it will not accept the key again. Just thought buying a cheap laptop would be easier.

I'm really stupid at computers, but how do I download the latest version of parallels and install the tools? I have Parallels tools installed at the moment, and have done since I bought Parallels last yr.

[Bongo]

When you open parallels there's a check for updates option in one of the menus (either parallels or help I think).

Try that first, then it might be worth changing the connection settings for parallels. Think I had to do that to get it to work - will check later.

[snoopy1239]

Well, Bongo's mentioned battery life.

Then there's the small hard drives, lack of memory and far from 'current' processors.  Screens aren't great either.

Wouldn't fancy PT running on them when the database is a decent size.

Battery life not a problem, as long as I can plug it in. Again, small hard drive no worry, it would just be Poker Tracker 3 and maybe a couple of poker clients. Not sure about memory and processors. What do you think minimum requirements would be if that was all I wanted to do (obviously with expanding Poker Tracker)?

[Colchester Kev]

'It it wiv an 'ammer.

[snoopy1239]

When you open parallels there's a check for updates option in one of the menus (either parallels or help I think).

Try that first, then it might be worth changing the connection settings for parallels. Think I had to do that to get it to work - will check later.

Oh, forgot you had it. Yes, it's weird, Internet is fine on Mac, but on Windows, it's intermittent (ie. goes on and off 20 secs a time), and impossible to play poker. Also, and I don't know whether this is a clue to the problem, but the cursor has suddenly gone jerky and either sticks momentarily or spurts off all of a sudden. Not sure why this has happened, I don't think I changed anything. I thought maybe I didn't have enough space, so I deleted some big files, but it made no difference.

[RED-DOG]

I'm having terrible problems with the buttons on my Mac.

[Claw75]

I'm having terrible problems with the buttons on my Mac.

mine keeps flashing