Open GL scores and laptops

[goodmorning87]

Hi

 

I've just got a few questions, I'm looking at getting a new laptop and am curious about a few things,

firstly

from what i understand the workstation graphics cards such as the quatro and firepro are good because of their high OpenGL scores and there specific design for CAD programs, unfortunately the laptops with these in them are out of my budget, however looking at the benchmarks on

(bah wont let me post the link but its on a site called notebookcheck / Mobile Graphics Cards Benchmark List)

some of the ATI cards seem comparable, im just wondering if this is really the case or if there's something I'm missing?

 

secondly ive pretty much selected a laptop

14" LEDAsus K42JR-VX047X

Core i5 2.53GHz (Turbo)

4GB DDR3 / 500GB HDD

1GB ATI Radeon HD5470

Windows 7 (64 Bit)/ XP Pr

 

I'm just wondering if in your guys opinion this should be sufficient for a student running AutoCAD 2010 on win 7 as well as a few other cad programs, my budget can go a bit higher but unfortunately there's not alot of range in the 14' laptops available in Australia and im worried a 15.6" might be a bit big

 

thanks alot for you help

[ReMark]

You work with the budget you have not the budget you wished you had.

 

You should be OK.

[Tankman]

Check out Lenovo Thinkpad™ laptops, you won't be disappointed.

 

Stay with a mobile 14 inch display.

 

Beautiful screens, excellent response, run AutoCAD without any problems, ever.

[goodmorning87]

looking at the Thinkpad T410 now which since its on sale is in my price range, though about 200 over my orginal budget

 

just checking something though, as far as i understand it what makes the quatros so good is that their configured for CAD and designed to have a high OpenGL rating

 

spificly comparing the ATI HD 5470 Which notebookcheck says has an OpenGL score of 3841

Vs.

The Quadro NVS 3100m which notebookcheck says has an OpenGL score of 3430

 

am i missing something here in terms of preformance or is it more that as has been suggested here that the lowerend of these workstation cards dont really have that much seperating them from the run of the mill?