Me again..... Looking fo Laptop Suggestions

Looking for suggestions on what laptop would be good for CAD and other
graphic programs again moderately priced.
Any suggestions?
~JNJ~

 

dell M60

 

I have to second that Dell M60. I just got mine and love it. I pick it up
from the refurbished page for $2250.00 with 3 yr onsite warrenty (same
machine spec new $3,400.00) It's a PM 1.7 with 1 gig ram and 128 meg quadro
fx go 700 video card. This machine is faster that my old P4 2.53 with 1 gig
ram and Quadro 550 64 mg video card.

 

I ran a business on quite a shit laptop for the first 2 years which I used
for all my invoices and letters and stuff also running AutoCAD r14 and I
didn't go through that much slowdown even on the 3d stuff (average drawing
size was about 3Mb), the only area which was let down was the rendering but
almost any laptop out now even the cheap ones are fast enough to render in a
moderatly acceptable time frame, if you want to play games you will need a
good one, try and get one with the newish ati 9600 mobility radeon graphics
card, I think its available in both 64 and 128Mb, it is the best mobile
graphics card out now. If games aren't going to be played on it then really
any laptop out there will be sufficiant, it depends on your cash flow and
what features you would like to have: dvd-rw, cd-rw, big screen, storage
devices like all in one card readers (which are great, those SD Cards are
spectacular especially the 256 and 512Mb ones) etc...... I personally
wouldn't go for a Dell like the previouse poster suggested, they are
overpriced and the after sales service from Dell is nothing to write home
about. Computer magazine websites are always a good source for ideas and are
usually pretty well priced if you live in the UK check out these 2
www.novatech.co.uk and www.inmac.co.uk .

Just to show you how shit my first ever laptop was heres the spec:

P2 333Mhz
6 GB Hard drive
96Mb
13.3" TFT screen
and only a 2Mb integrated graphics card
no built in writers or modem and network cards

You'll find even the cheapest laptop around has much better specs than that.

Mark

 

No, no and no! You need a decent support for OpenGL for SolidWorks, ATI
has not that, get a Guadro and you can be sure that it works. Or get a
cheaper GeForce and hack it with SoftQuadro.

 

Although the Quadro definately excells in openGL support we do not know what
king of drawings he does and he didn't mention anything about using
solidworks or other kinds of advanced solid modelling packages, and the only
reason I suggested the ati was for gaming and the ati IS the best at that,
considerably.

 

The main thing for me is a screen with 1920 x 1200 pixels. They're a
bit hard to find, but Dell has model 8600 which is considerably less $
than the M60. The video card on the 8600 doesn't seem to have a
multiple window slowdown, so far - jsut no RealView.

Jerry Forcier

 

Toshiba laptops all the way baby!