Kicked to death but....laptop please!

HOWDY GROUP!

I need to spec a laptop so our sales guy can go out and WOW the customers
with Solidworks and eDrawings. What, Where and How much is a decent setup
for displaying, not necessarily for designing on it. I may get stuck
tweaking designs on the spot but for the most part it is all show. I've
never had to spec a laptop so I don't know what to look for...different
processors, and the video card!?!?! what am I looking for? Quadro?

TIA

3D


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I am using SW 2003 SP4 on a Compaq Evo N800v with 512 Mb of ram. the
video card is an ATI mobility 7500 with 64 Mb ram on the built in 15"
screen at 1400 X 1050 resolution. 40 gig HD. Windows XP pro & & it
works very well.

 

Everyone always seems to go with Dell M60 as the one of choice. Not
saying that it is bad or that it cant handel SW well. But me thinks
that the Area 51 from Alienware can do just as good a job.

 

bob z. is gonna have to second the Dell M60. (gawd, bob z. hates dells, but
in this case it'll probably work perfectly).
the price is kinda high, but with the 2gb of ram that it is capable of, you
can have it all setup with everything running for the psycho to just flip it
open and start stuttering, uh, bob z. means impressing.
man, oh man. bob z. is looking at this thing [m60] while he is typing.
sheesh! this thing is going to be over $5000 by the time it's useable!!!

on a side note, did you guys hear about Dell changing their name? yeah,
they are Dell Inc. now. one night alone with Joan Jett if you can tell us
what Dell was called before.

--
bob z.
p.s. i think about you. darling, you are the only one...

"people with less brain power than you are doing more difficult things
everyday"©

 

We've got an older (about a year and a half...sheese) PIII 1.3ghz M50 Dell
and it is still quite usable as an actual worstation. Ours has 512mb ram,
and "Quadro 2 Go" graphics, running Win2000. Haven't had any of the
"Dell-ish" problems you see people write about here.

Regards

Mark

 

on a side note, did you guys hear about Dell changing their name? yeah,

LOL.
Good one bob z

es

 

I use a 1 ghz Dell for my work and it is a bit slow now, but good for
what I'm doing for a bit longer.

http://www.discountlaptops.com/ sells Sager's w/3.06 ghz laptop @ just
under $2k. That is a LOT of lunches compared to a Dell M60.

Was highly recommended by an earlier post a week or two ago by a Swks
user who's firm had 6-7 of them over the last few years. Described
them as bulletproof.

Bo

 

Bo,

Yea.. We looked at em. The bummer was the graphics chip. At the time they
didn't offer a FireGL version of the Radeon. I don't really know that they
do now. The consumer Radeon chip has the same multi windows limitation as
the Geforce.

Fujitsu makes a nice machine with an Nvidia Quadro chip, Celsius if I
remember right. They're a little less than the Dell, but still way over
priced.

Regards

Mark

 

yeah, Quadro FX 1000, FX 2000 or Quadro4 980 XGL, 900XGL, 780 XGL, 750
XGL, 700 XGL, or 700 Go GL.

all these support 'Realview' in SWX 2004. Something you will be well
pleased with!

 

I may be wrong but I think the OP is looking to use SW and eDrawings to
demo their own products rather than selling SW itself.

 

yes : )