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Originally Posted by PaulyJames200x
Hey fozzy. I am going to get a new laptop soon as I'm in the US now and looking at laptops.
You would never recommend getting a macbook and using it to run HEM3 correct? I always used windows and was going to buy another windows laptop but I was considering a macbook.
I have never used a MAC, so I can not comment on it. Our QA/Testing Manager uses one, and so does/did a former employee, but I don't know how they got on with HM3 on it.
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Originally Posted by PaulyJames200x
If I buy a macbook and download bootcamp or parallels, I heard a while back these were the programs you need to download to use windows on a mac, would that work with HEM? I assume it would but you would not recommend this?
Correct. There are no plans for a MAC version of HM3. If you want to use HM3 on a MAC you will need to use something like Parallels or BootCamp so you can install Windows for playing poker. If you do not want to use Windows to play poker you could consider trying the MAC version of PT4.
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Originally Posted by PaulyJames200x
Also my old xps 15 9550 that i use to play, i had upgraded the ram to 8gb to 32gb a while back but mentioned stars aurora still had issues with this when lot of tables. HEM3 would still be good enough if my new laptop whether its a windows or mac only has 16gb ram? Or should I make sure i upgrade the ram to 32gb if its windows? Or should the processor will be more than fast enough to handle this? I know my old xps laptop processor is older as i5-6300hq though and my graphics card is just very old with intel hd 630 graphics and nvidia geforce gtx960m.
My old Desktop had 16 GB of RAM, a decent i7 for when I bought it 4 or 5 years ago, and an SSD, and it did well from what I recall but it died nearly 2 years ago so I could be remembering wrong.
I would compare similar computers on a PC building site and see what the price difference is between 16 and 32 GB for the type of machine you want. I would bet the difference is maybe 10 or 15% more to double the RAM, in which case I would do it personally if you plan to keep this new laptop as long as you kept the last one.
Here is my 3 year old laptop specs for reference. I bought it from Best Buy in October of 2019 for 1600 or 1800 on sale if I recall correct. I had a working Desktop at the time so this only got used when I traveled or went to a coffee shop, etc until the desktop died 20 or so months ago then this became my daily driver. I don't mass multi-table like you but my laptop has no issues for me testing on 3 or 4 tables at a time, or importing 100's of thousands (or millions) of customer hands for testing.
Edit: 512 GB SSD
Regards,
Fozzy71