help purchasing laptop for autocad use!?!?

[exitis]

hello,
I hope this is the correct place to ask, but im planning on buying a laptop and I'm going to be using AutoCAD 2006 on it, any recommendation on what specs I should get configured for this laptop? Any brands or things I should consider into the purchase of my laptop? Just to give you a little background, I primarily will be using it for autocad, some internet and very little gaming. I work for a pool company and have alot of big files to work with. I have an office I will do most of my work in but I travel 8-10 weeks out of the year, and want to be able to do work on the road and email back to my office. I'm not to computer savvy, I know I'm looking atleast at a 2GB ram, 250GB HDD not sure about processor, etc...
thanks

[JeepMaster]

I have a P4HT 3.0GHz with 2G ram at work running ADT 2007. It's running fine, but it could be faster. In other words, don't get anything lower. :)

[Dman2900]

Before you do buy one look at this site, http://www.gotapex.com/ , they have coupons from Dell. The one that is going on now is "Dell Small Business - $500 off a $1249+ Dell Vostro 1400 & 1500 Notebook Purchase, or $500 off a $1299+ Vostro 1700 Purchase!"

I got a $1,500 Insprion 1520, 2.4ghz, 4g ram, 320g HD, 15.4 screen w/ Windows XP for just under $1,000.:D

I'm only running 2002 and ADT 3.3 on it......:oops:

[zars]

I'd suggest a Core2duo with 2gb ram and min 100 GB on HD

[ReMark]

CADalyst Magazine had a review of laptops geared towards CAD last year. I think they referred to it by the title "Road Warrior". You might want to pop over to their website and do a search for it.

[CADDict]

Acer 5520-5912 from Wal-Mart here. Cheap and powerful and works great with AutoCAD 2008.
15.4"
1.9 dual core AMD
2G Ram
160G hard drive

[chrisdarmanin]

had an old laptop with amd2600, 256mb ram

acad (2006) took a lot of time to load, even the laptop itself. but once everything was loaded it would run fast. i only used it in 2d though with large files with xrefs

[achen]

what is the minimum requirement to run autocad smoothly?

[GhostRider]

I recently bought a laptop for a lot of different uses , but do use autocad on it also , it runs 2008 better than either of the desktops I use, would have like to had the Gforce video though.. but for $750 It'll do... I like hooking up my 20" monitor to it and using it in dual setup.
Get all the processor and memory you can afford though.


Core 2 Duo Processor T5450 (1.66GHz, 667MHz FSB, 2MB L2 Cache)
Windows Vista Home Premium (32-bit)3072MB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM
250GB 5400rpm Serial ATA hard drive w/ 8MB cache
15.4" WXGA Ultrabright TFT Active Matrix (1280 x 800 max. resolution)
Integrated Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 with up to 384MB
of Dynamic Video Memory and Intel® GM965 chipset


achen: visit here for min requirements http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=8446045

[Cad64]

what is the minimum requirement to run autocad smoothly?

Minimum system requirements for Autocad 2008 (http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/2007/02/system_requirem.html)

[CADNY]

You should have a core 2 duo, 2 gb ram, 7200 rpm harddrive and a good video card