Need help making a computer for solidworks

[joec230]

My boss is letting me pick everything I want for new computer to run solidworks on.

I would like laptop since 1/2 time I will be working from my house(2 man company since I joined). I'm thinking the Athlon64 would be a good processor. Any suggestions? This is for 2001plus, I'm going to try and see if we can upgrade to 2005.

I don't need anything real fancy but I need a fast processor and ram for solidworks. Other uses would be writing bids, and using the internet to order parts from vendors.

Built in wireless internet would also be a big plus.

Sorry for the rambling, any suggestions welcome thanks.

Joe Conklin
joeconklin@gmail.com

 

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[Beggar]

If you really get to pick everything you want, I'd seriously consider foregoing the laptop and go with a tower workstation -- you'll get much, much better performance for the money.

I work from home about 30% and just lug the tower back and forth. I've purchased a collapsible (sp?) dolly and really find it very little effort to swap I/O from my personal machine to the company horse.

If you're not going to be travelling, then I see little benefit to the laptop.


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[Theophilus]

A real workstation will give you the benifits of expansion for any component in the future and almost half the price for the same performance as a laptop. Considering how much your time is worth, it could pay off to buy two workstations and a USB keychain (to tote files) between the two. I bought an AMD 64-bit Opteron box (no monitor) for less than $2,000 over a year ago and am getting excellent results in performance and stability. A 1GB USB flash drive will cost $60-$100 and is a great way to keep all files updated between locations. (I do a lot of on-site work for clients.)

Search this forum for "Intel" "AMD" "RAM" and others to find more specific information on this topic.


Jeff Mowry

http://www.industrialdesignhaus.com

Reality is no respecter of good intentions.

 

[djw2k3]

Hi Joe,

http://www.spec.org/gpc/apc.data/specapc_sw2005_summary.html

This might be of interest. I don't know the background of this benchmark test, but if mobile requirements are what you need, the M70 laptop is not obscenely more expensive than the desktop workstations.

DW

 

[SBaugh]

A little old but still good I think

http://www.scottjbaugh.com/Tips_Tricks/Hardware Recommendations.htm

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies

http://www.3dvisiontech.com

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

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