Laptop hardware / FTP

[PennDisc]

Been having problems for weeks now trying to multitable (6-8 tables) on FTP while running pt and pokerace. CPU utilization hits 100 after 20 min or so, stays there, and then i start having a ton of lag. so bad that i don't even get buttons to act or see my cards til i've timed out sometimes. When i posted in the internet gambling forum, most basically said their lag issues had gone away.

Sure, FTP should have more streamlined code, and they claim they will. But this might never happen, or might not be enough to solve my problems months from now if/when it happens.

So does anyone have any idea how good your hardware has to be to handle all the stuff i've mentioned above? I'm running a Pentium M 1.8 GHz machine with 1.2GB ram. It's never been anywhere near 100% cpu utilization playing poker until the last few months on full tilt, though I'd never played more than 4 tables til this time either.

Anyone have recommendations? Is it time for a new laptop, or would moving the pokertracker DB to another computer help? The pt and postgres processes don't seem to use more than 10-15% of the cpu combined, i've seen 25% at most, so it's mostly fulltiltpoker.exe just choking my system.

I'd hate to spend $1k or more on a new laptop just for poker and find out that i didn't really need more processing power after all. Switching sites also wouldn't be ideal in terms of finding games, having resizeable windows, rakeback, pt compatibility, etc.