laptop that works with Solidworks

Discussion in 'SolidWorks' started by yaofengchen, Mar 2, 2005.

  1. yaofengchen

    yaofengchen Guest

    I posted some days ago my Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 w/512MB not
    working right with Solidworks 2005. It would crash whenever I "save
    as". The problem is still there. Now I found a new one on top of
    that. My Cosmosworks also does not work. But everything is fine on my
    desktop computer in the office.

    So now my question is, what type of laptop works with both Solidworks
    and Cosmosworks?
     
    yaofengchen, Mar 2, 2005
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  2. yaofengchen

    yaofengchen Guest

    Breifly searched the group. Couldn't find any post on Toshiba
    Satellite Pro 6100 P4 1.7 GHz running Solidworks 2005.

    Let me ask a different question then. Is there anyone out there
    running a Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 smoothly with SW2005?

    Following is brief spec of my laptop:

    Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100
    Pentium P4 1.7GHz
    512 MB Ram
    20 GB Hard Drive
    Nvidia GeForce 420 Go
     
    yaofengchen, Mar 2, 2005
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  3. yaofengchen

    Krister L Guest

    GeForce is bad news......most probably the cause of all Your troubles.

    Krister L (Running SW2005 smoothly on a Dell M60)
     
    Krister L, Mar 2, 2005
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  4. yaofengchen

    Scott Guest

    Get the M70 it replaces the M60

    Regards,
    Scott
     
    Scott, Mar 2, 2005
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  5. yaofengchen

    customsolids Guest

    I've tried for way too long now to get by with my Toshiba Satellite 1.8
    GHz P4, 1 GB Ram, 40 GB Hard Drive, NVidia GeForce4 460 Go. It kind of
    worked with SW2001+. With SW2003, I found I had to re-boot on a
    regular basis, shut down anti-virus, shut down all non-essential
    services, and wait patiently after mouse clicks for a response before
    deciding whether or not something would happen. Installing SW2004 put
    me over the edge. It made me hate working on my laptop because it was
    almost unworkable almost all the time. So why did I install SW2005 on
    it? That was a mistake I uninstalled in less than a week. SW2004 was
    bad, but at least I could open stuff (eventually).

    But life is good again. My brand new Dell M70 arrived last Friday and
    it's beautiful! I haven't done any benchmarks yet, but it responds in
    Real-time, which is an unbelievable improvement! My recommendation to
    you is that you've reached the point where the pain just is not worth
    it. You need a new laptop!

    Happy shopping!
    Brenda
     
    customsolids, Mar 2, 2005
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  6. yaofengchen

    yaofengchen Guest

    How much does it set you back and what is the configuration? Thanks.
     
    yaofengchen, Mar 2, 2005
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    Bo Guest

    You figure that with hi-res screen and typical fast HD and 1 gig of
    memory on one DIMM, and both wireless options you wind up with $4k,
    including taxes in the U.S.

    www.dell.com in their workstation area.

    Bo
     
    Bo, Mar 2, 2005
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  8. yaofengchen

    yaofengchen Guest

    I don't know what to do with my Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100. Paid
    $3,500 three years ago. have already got the money's worth many times
    over. And it is on the second motherboard and the second hard drive
    free with the three year extended warranty. It is still no slouch even
    now at P4 1.7 GHz, except it won't work with SW2005 and Cosmoswork
    2005. Other than that I am very satisfied with its performance. It
    has DVD/CDRW, wireless ethernet and 512MB ram. All are adequate. The
    only justification to get a new one is to expend it on a project.
     
    yaofengchen, Mar 3, 2005
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  9. yaofengchen

    customsolids Guest

    Got kids? Spouse? Friends?
    In case you hadn't realized...SolidWorks/Cosmos are far more demanding
    than "typical" personal applications. Hand-me-down SW computers can
    still have a lot of life left in them for other things, if you have the
    right someone to pass them on to.

    Of course if you're not really needing portability for SW, you could
    just run SW on a desktop workstation and keep your laptop for the other
    things it does well.

    I know it hurts to say good-bye after investing big $$ in a
    state-of-the-art computer (or so it used to be), so I guess this is a
    personal decision only you can make.

    Good luck!
    Brenda
     
    customsolids, Mar 3, 2005
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  10. yaofengchen

    yaofengchen Guest

    My Toshiba is bought by the company. So I can't really give it to my
    son or daughter. Although it would be nice if I can do it. I don't
    know how the next person would think if he's getting this hand-me-down
    laptop. It is by no means under powered. I am an engineer and travel
    with the laptop frequently. Solid modeling and the associated
    parametric manipulation is just one of the tools I use. There are no
    less than $30k worth of other analytical tols such as CAD and finite
    element software on the Toshiba and it is handling them just fine.
    This problem is not because the Toshiba is under powered, it is a video
    adapter issue.
     
    yaofengchen, Mar 3, 2005
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    Sporkman Guest

    Questionable advice, at best. GeForce cards IN GENERAL are well known
    to be very stable with SolidWorks. There are always going to be
    exceptions. Mine has been running extremely well from SW2003 through to
    today without changing the driver. GeForce drivers, however, run the
    gamut from awful to wonderful. The latest is not necessarily the
    greatest. Mr. Yao needs to try other drivers than what he has -- he
    might be pleasantly surprised.

    Mark 'Sporky' Stapleton
    Watermark Design, LLC
    Charlotte, North Carolina
    www.h2omarkdesign.com
     
    Sporkman, Mar 7, 2005
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