Laptop Recommendation

[profcad]

I’m looking at purchasing a new laptop. It has to be a Dell because of state contracts.


Has anyone had any experience with a Dell Precision M90 laptop with a NVIDIA Quadro® FX 2500M 512MB or 1500M 256MB?

or a Dell Precision M65 with the NVIDIA Quadro® FX 350M 512MB?

All three video cards are supported by AutoCAD 2007 and Inventor 11.

Both of the laptops have a 64-bit dual-core Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo processor.

[Rainy-Day]

I haven't used any of these, but for Autocad and especially Inventor, and for that matter, for winXP itself, you definitely want more than 256mb.

[iain9876]

hi prof,

The perfect computer is still yet to be built.

in my mind, go with any one of them and get the ram upgraded to at least one gig.

[profcad]

I'm going with 2GB on the motherboard. I know AutoCAD and Inventor can do wierd things with certain graphics cards. They are both certified for AutoCAD and Inventor.

[Mr T]

Innventor performance scales with Ram and 2 processors. Is that what the dual core or duo is ? I rarely use more than ten parts in an assemblybut Ihave heard of engineers with thousands of parts.

Dual pocessor used to be the dbl term.

Also they way inwhich the video ramis connected to the motherboard helps eg limited bottlenecking

Nick