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Keywiz MAX vs. I-Pac2
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: RandyT on August 04, 2005, 05:24:32 pm ---The fact that the computer is a little underpowered for XP may also have something to do with it, but I haven't seen that be a specific issue yet.
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Without knowing the RAM amounts, I wouldn't say that a 1Ghz Processor is "a little underpowered for XP"
Microsoft's (admittedly optimistic) requirements say it can run on a 300Mhz or even a 233 Mhz machine.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/upgrading/sysreqs.mspx
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/XPMyths.html
Of couse those pages also say it will work with 64-128M of RAM and my experience has been that is is sluggish with 256M and only really happy with 512M (or more), so you may be closer to the truth on this than I am.
RandyT:
--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on August 05, 2005, 07:35:19 am ---Of couse those pages also say it will work with 64-128M of RAM and my experience has been that is is sluggish with 256M and only really happy with 512M (or more), so you may be closer to the truth on this than I am.
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Heh, I probably should have phrased that differently. XP has a lot more going on in the background than earlier OS's. So, the more tasks happening at the same time will equate to more divisions of the processor's resources. The slower the processor, the longer the time spent in each of the divisions and the longer the pause between servicing them . Communication with the keyboard via the uploader software is accomplished though Windows system calls to make it as "safe" to the stability of the OS as possible. Therefore if the OS doesn't deem the communication to be time-critical (which most communication to the keyboard isn't) it will get held off until other higher priority tasks are completed.
The Keywiz uploader is somewhat timing critical, so I offered computer speed under that OS as a possibility. What might cause a paint program just to have bad lag, could have a very different effect on a hardware / software combination where the timing of the responses from the hardware is important.
As I said though, this isn't from direct experience and troubleshooting from 1000 miles away leads one to explore esoteric possibilities that sometimes actually help to fix the problem ;)
RandyT
USSEnterprise:
I actually had XP Pro running on a 300MHz PC with 192MB RAM for a while. It actually worked pretty smoothly. I'm going to be dual booting with Windows 2000, and Fedora Core 3, both of which take advantage of my dual processors. Are either encoder compatible with Linux (Fedora Core 3)?
Tiger-Heli:
Somewhat, the I-PAC moreso than the KeyWiz.
AFAIK, the KeyWiz will work fine under Linux if you use the default codeset (which I do under Win98).
The I-PAC had a programming utility for Linux, but AFAIK, it doesn't work with the current version of the board. However, you can program the I-PAC without software using the keyboard pass-through, and it will remember those settings, so you could program it and use it with a custom codeset in Linux.
Also, you the KeyWiz only loses it's settings on power removal, so you COULD boot into Win2k, program it, boot into Fedora and use it, but I don't think you would want to.
DreamArcades:
Personally, I think the IPAC