laptop for solidworks

any recomendations question compact r4000? good, bad what ever.

 

Don't buy any laptop without the high-end nVIDIA card.

Only a few brands support the card. Searching this group will turn up
comments on Boxx, Sager, Alienware, and Dell.

I use a Dell M60 (current model = M70) because their Complete Care
gives me 24 hour turnaround on fixes for 3 years, and they have lived
up to their service claims (& on my earlier Dell laptop, too). Other
guys want to save some money.

Bo

 

Well, I should give you an update on that Boxx. It did seem to be
faster than the common high end laptop, but in the end, it was too
finicky to really use. I wound up sending it back to Boxx. The company
seriously recommended that you NOT run Windows Updates or update the
video driver because it could (and did) leave the system in an unusable
condition.

I couldn't get it set up and stable in a way that I wanted to work. The
first problem is that it couldn't read from my external floppy because
it had card readers on it. So I got another floppy drive. Then the
machine wouldn't boot if I installed ANYTHING. I could boot in safe
mode and do an upgrade, and then I was ok until I installed something
else.

Plus, changing the Hyperthreading setting seemed to require a
reinstallation of the OS. Same problems with two different hard drives,
but I lost my patience before they could swap out the motherboard.
Anyway, they were honorable about it and credited me full price to a
tower. Of course $4k buys a pretty screaming tower, so I'm not too
upset.

The M70 is probably the safe choice. The Sager, Alienware, Eurocomm,
Hypersonic, Boxx and a couple others are all built on the same platform
with the same components, and I'd be leary of any of them after my
experience.

Matt

 

I can recomend the dell M70. We are running 3 of them and have had no
problems so far. The only problem you will encounter is the dongle. We had
to swap out our dongles for USB versions and our VAR wanted to charge us
£135 each to do so. We eventually managed to get a reduction in next years
subscription charge...not a perfect solution, but not too bad either.

Also, try to get a discount from them. We recently bought a Dell PDA, and
without too much trouble, managed to get a reasonable price reduction just
by asking!

Regards Gary

 

I just purchased a new Dell M70. I recommend it. Not blazing fast, but much
more customizable than my last Dell desktop 5 years ago. I had only 2
issues, a missing AC adapter and a cosmetic defect in the lid. I had
replacements the next day.

Best Regards,
Devon T. Sowell
www.3-ddesignsolutions.com