The point in the Bruker recommended PC is the Video Card I'm afraid.
You can check up the installation guide of Xwinnmr for Windows2000 or Linux,
Xwinnmr need a 8-bit pseudo color X server. That's why they recommends HP
VL800 to us. The matrox video card is capable of dual monitors display. I
don't think other things will matter.
We are planning to move to PC. Before actual upgrading, the local Bruker
engineer was kind enough to test Xwinnmr3.0 ( we currently using 1.3) for us in
order to determine which boards require upgrading. At that time we used a DIY
pc with Windows2000 and actually had no problem in installation and carrying
out the basic 1D experiments. Yet being afraid of possible trouble arising
from the PC side, we bought a PC that Bruker recommends at last. It's after
the purchase of the PC did I find the requirement of installation of Xwinnmr.
I'm afraid not all Bruker engineers know the tricky point.
Hope this helps, yet I cannot guarentee anything.
Cheers,
Tong
gopal subramaniam wrote:
> Hi Bruker users,
> I believe some of you may have changed your existing SGI to PC based system.
> Going through Bruker seems to be very expensive. Other than transferring the
> license and upgrading a CCU board, there is a charge for the computer and
> some software which is prohibitively overpriced by $1,700.
> Their claim is that similar computer and sometimes different versions of the
> software does not work with xwinnmr.
> I feel $1,700 is a huge premium for a standard computer and software even if
> they have figured out the right combination of software & it is to be noted
> that their premium does not even include on-site installation!!
> I like to hear from those who have recently gone to PC based Bruker system.
> Please let me know if there are really big hurdles if we try to install the
> software and make it work with xwinnmr. Thank You.
> --
> Gopal Subramaniam,
> NMR Manager, Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry
> Queens College, Flushing, NY 11367
> Tel.: (718)997-4123 Fax: (718)997-5531
> eMail: subram_at_qc.edu
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Institute of Biophysics, Academia Sinica
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