new laptop - 1300£/2500$

[Guest tomasso]

Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 9:29 am Post subject: laptop for AutoCAD - 1000£ hi

 

I'm considering getting a laptop for my architectural studies. It will mainly be used for a combination of autoCAD 2005 and 3d's max studio. Portability is an issue, but I have read that you shouldn't get anything smaller than 15" for graphical applications. 3 kg is my weight limit . Other than that I want as much CAD/3d power for the £/$ as I can get...The chassis must be of resonable quality as well. Any machines I should seriously consider, or possibly stay away from? I'v considered Dell Precison M65 and ASUS A6Ja...

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My NEC laptop has given me too many problems to mention.

My experience - keep away from NEC!!

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Oh yes - remember to ensure that they give you the OS Windows

disc when you buy it. NEC have a policy of not doing that which

can make it tricky if your machine crashes later on and you have you reinstall

Windows.

 

My advice - check out a few notebook/laptop magazine reviews or

web reviews first.

 

My mainboard died last week and is costing around $1100 - great when

you campare it to desktop prices so extend your warranty if you can afford it.

 

Good luck;)

[AJLynn]

For the money you should be able to get a Core Duo CPU, 2 gigs of RAM, large hard drive, good 3D card, screen with a lot of pixels (the resolution is as important as the size, or more important) and DVD burner.

 

Dells are usually pretty bad. Have you looked at the new HP models?

[chx]

I can recommand you a dell machine, new xps m1710 or inspiron 9400, both come with core duo. Dell is great imo, bought an xps some months ago with 7800 go gtx and damn it's good. I paid it less than 2500$ 4 months back. 1gig ram 7800gtx, 80gig dvd+-rw, 17" 1920*1200 (that is so great to work)