Notebook of choice

Will one of the many Graphic Artists here with experience, please
recommend which make and model Notebook would be better used with
Solidworks. And should a different than stock item graphics card be
ordered as well? I have learned that as much memory should be ordered
as is possible.

I would be grateful,
Erika Layne

 

Hello Erika-

I recommend the Dell M70. Mine is about 6 months old and performs very well.

The default video card is very good. I recently upgraded to 2MB RAM and just
ordered a docking station and a second hard drive module. I wish I would
have ordered a faster CPU.

Cheers,
Devon T. Sowell
www.3-ddesignsolutions.com


Dell Precision Mobile Workstation M70 Pentium® M Processor 730
(1.60GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 533FSB)15.4 WUXGA LCD
M7U16
[221-5394]

Memory FREE UPGRADE! 1GB,DDR SDRAM, 2X512MB for the price of 512MB
1GBDYM
[464-1862]

Graphics Card NVIDIA® Quadro® FX Go1400 256MB OpenGL graphics
NV41256
[320-3908]

Boot Hard Drives 60GB Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
60I72
[341-0979]

Floppy Drive Options No Floppy Drive Option
NFD
[340-8870]

Operating Systems Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional, SP2, with Media
XPP2E
[420-4867]

Modem Internal 56K Modem
INTM
[313-2583]

Modular Bay Devices 24-24-24X SWDVD/CDRW Combo Drive
COMBO
[313-2589]

Wireless Local Area Networking Options Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200 WLAN
(802.11b/g, 54Mbps) miniPCI Card
IPW22LF
[430-1387]

Systems Management Dell OpenManage Client Instrumentation
OMCI
[420-3904]

Resource CD Resource CD - contains Diagnostics and Drivers
RCD
[420-4533]

Battery 9-Cell Primary Battery
9CELLP
[312-0281]

Hardware Support Services 3 Year On-site Economy Plan
W3YOS
[980-8010]
[980-8012]

Onsite System Setup No Onsite System Setup
NOINSTL
[900-9987]

File System NTFS File System
NTFS
[420-3699]

Quick Reference Guide Quick Reference Guide
REF
[310-6443]

Additional Battery 9-Cell Spare primary battery
9CELLP2
[312-0282]

 

Well, it depends mainly on the complexity of the assemblies which you are
woking with.
For example in our office we use a pair of HP NX6125 notebooks (AMD Turion
2GHz CPU, 1024GB RAM, ATI RadeonX200 graphic chip with 128MB shared memory,
15" 1400x1050 display) and they're just perfect for our needs, but our
assemblies rarely reach more than 60 parts.

 

On a practical note, given the introduction of Intel's next generation
Celeron/Yonah Mobile chips a few days back, every manufacturer is going
to be discounting the likes of the M70 prior to or simulataneous with
the introduction of the newer (& supposedly quite faster and more
energy efficient) models.

Bo

 

for m70 configuration, you can use workstation advisor on the
www.dell.com/isv- just choose Solidworks and it gives you the
recommended configuration. M70 work fine with it.