Fujitsu LifeBook N3010 and RADEON 9000 & SolidWorks

Does anyone have experience running SolidWorks on Fujitsu's LifeBook
N3010?
I has an ATI Mobility RADEON 9000 with 64 MB of dedicated video memory
which looks tempting, considering the $1399 price for this notebook.
Thanks
Fred

 

I can tell you from experience ATI's do not work good at all with
SolidWorks...get one with nvidia, preferrably wioth Quadro GO card.

Todd

 

Agree with the Quadro card - I have a Nvidia 440go in a Dell Latitude and it
does the odd annoying thing with SW and I have had no success with the
Softquadro patches as yet (although Mike Wilson has posted some excellent
stuff on it - downloading the various drivers is too much of a pain on a 56K
modem!).
Look at some of the Dell resellers (in the UK we have EuroPC
(www.europc.co.uk) and budget-IT (www.budget-it.com) both of whom have good
spec Dell M50's with three year RTB warranties for sensible prices - a
friend got a 2.4Ghz, 1Gb RAM, Quadro 550go card for around £1400 (1800
euros/dollars) and is over the moon with it. The screens are also nice at
1600x1200 - I prefer it to my old 21" CRT.
From experience, it is feasible to run SW on a laptop running quite large
models at a sensible speed.
Best of luck
Deri

 

I use an acer 800lci centrino with the ati 9000. I also was a little
sceptical about ati, but it works without problems now.
I had a problem with locking op the whole system in sw 2003(remove battery
to restart) . i downloaded the newest drivers and now everything works
great.

regards Bram