Laptop Help

[scorpio]

i am a architectural student looking for laptop which is capable of running programmes like photoshop/3d studio viz/autocad n maybe flash n video editing in the future

 

need u all to advice me on the min specs required to run these programmes smoothly.

 

i am currntly looking at the toshiba tecra m1 model, Pentium M 1.6, with a trident xp4m 32GPU. 512 ram

how is this graphics card? only herad of gforce and ATI..havent seen trident in notebooks b4

 

is 32 mb of graphics suffidient, or should i go for 64mb?..pl recommend.

[Cesar R]

def 64MB

 

If you can aford it buy one of those alien ware laptops or an apple G4

 

I have a g4 17" runing everything you mentioned. 3ds runs under virtual PC. its not very fast but it help while i am school. I use archicad for mac and I also have a PC version on my workstation (desktop) and I am very happy. with 1G of ram and the 64Mb card I got my system is pretty good.

 

notice that not that many laptops can go to 1gig of ram. also keep in mind that your are ot going to render on a laptop. Mostly you are going to model and tweak models which is why the ram and the video are important.

 

 

-I cant wait till the day someone comes out with a dual cpu laptop.