What Laptop to get?
What Laptop to get?
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Hello,
I am looking for some input regarding laptops and SolidWorks. I am currently looking to get a laptop, preferably a Dell something or other. While I would like to get the M60 it is out of my budget range and for the most part I will only be running SolidWorks once or twice a week on it when I have some work that I need to do at home. The laptops that I have seen that are in my price range are either running the ATI Radeon or the NVidia GForce video card. I looked at the SolidWorks website and they seem to have issues with both but how bad are they I do not know, hopefully somebody does and can help out. If anybody has any suggestions on a laptop that would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
I am looking for some input regarding laptops and SolidWorks. I am currently looking to get a laptop, preferably a Dell something or other. While I would like to get the M60 it is out of my budget range and for the most part I will only be running SolidWorks once or twice a week on it when I have some work that I need to do at home. The laptops that I have seen that are in my price range are either running the ATI Radeon or the NVidia GForce video card. I looked at the SolidWorks website and they seem to have issues with both but how bad are they I do not know, hopefully somebody does and can help out. If anybody has any suggestions on a laptop that would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks






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Both have issues with swx,i have spent many hours loading various drivers on and off my systems to try and get rid of the disappearing lines,no refresh,strange visual effects syndrome that is apparent with these GPU's.
The best driver i have found for both of them is Omega driver 2530 which seems to give little or no problems.
However,I do not work with anything larger than 50mb so this may not work in your case,you could always frustrate yourself by using the software openGL option ,but my experience with doing this is that unless it is an extremely simple part/assy,rotating the part becomes so jerky that it is unusable.
I've learned my lesson the expensive way,save a little longer or borrow the money and buy the M60,mine should be here in about a weeks time.
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Not sure what the outlet is but I don't see why it would be a bad thing??
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.3dvisiontech.com
http://www.scottjbaugh.com
For all Newbie's - Welcome to the nerd herd!
FAQ731-376
RE: What Laptop to get?
"But what... is it good for?"
Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
Have you read FAQ731-376 to make the best use of Eng-Tips Forums?
RE: What Laptop to get?
RE: What Laptop to get?
M60/Pentium M 1.7GH/512 MB/NVIDIA® Quadro FX Go700/128MB / WUXGA display (1900x1200 wonderfull)
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p.s. Dell has deals on these every once in a while. I saw them (60GB 7200rpm) selling new on Dell.com for about $130 the other day. Would make a good upgrade for your machine.
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