Thanks Andrew.

Bottom line: which do you feel is best? My guess it’s the Lenovo. I’ve never been a fan of HP PCs (and the amount of garbage software they put on them) and I don’t know much about Dell. What do Signal Hound guys use?

jom

I’m glad someone brought this up. I’m curious as to whether the laptop (or even your desktop) needs to be super fast ALL of the time. Meaning are there different modes while running the SA where it doesn’t necessarily need a full speed processor?

I can see if you were doing some fast real-time spur search or whatever but what if you were just doing more “normal” measurements would it then be necessary to have a super fast PC?

Just curious.

Thanks

jom

Thanks Justin

OK, admittedly I kind of knew that already. I was hoping that there might be a setting in the SA that might get it above 6 GHz such as running at slower sweep speeds or some such.

Also, I was curious about the idea of moving down to 1-2 GHz in your suggestion. Is there a particular reason for that? Is converting down to, say, 5 GHz still OK? Just curious…

Frankly, I’m trying to talk myself into the BB60C but the SA124B might be a better deal. Is there something I might be overlooking here if I go with the lower cost model?

Thanks again!

jom

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