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Civil 3D on Laptop

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rwatson654
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Civil 3D on Laptop

I'm looking for recommendations for a laptop to use with Civil 3D.  We need a power laptop to replace a desktop (as much as possible).  The user will be traveling from office to office & docking there.  Price range $2500 +/-

Civil 3D, 2009 & 2011

Win 7 Enterprise 64bit

8 GB

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Message 2 of 14
OMCUSNR
in reply to: rwatson654

http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/toshiba-qosmio-x505-q850/4505-3121_7-33776117.html

 

 

I've got a Qosmio X-500 w/ an I5 processor.  I was looking for the most bang for the buck at $1000.  Got this at B&H for 1,100, and upgraded to Win 7 64 pro.  I'm happy with it.  Seems to handle 2011 ok, but I don't do big sites.  It installed 2010 in XP mode & it runs fine.

 

One of the biggest things to me is screen realestate, and at 18.1 this is about as big as it gets under $2k.  It's heavy (10#s), but doable.

 

Reid

Homebuilt box: I5-2500k, MSI P67A-GD65, 12gig DDR3 1600 ram, ASUS ENGTX460 Video card, WD Velociraptor WD4500HLHX HD, Win 7 64 pro.
Message 3 of 14
WalterL
in reply to: rwatson654

I got a Dell Precision M6500 from the Dell Outlet when they had a coupon code deal. Got it loaded for about $2500. I watch the Dell Outlet tweets on Twitter, every so often they have coupon codes come out for Home, Business or the outlet.

Message 4 of 14
GZE
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in reply to: rwatson654

Try HP Elitebook mobile work station 8740w I have a 8530w which is certified for C3D it works fine on small projects but a bit sluggish with big projects.
Humphrey GZE
Civil 3D 2013 64bit SP1
Elitebook 8540w
Core i7 2.8GHz, 8Gig RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX880
160Gb SSD
Message 5 of 14
joshuamodglin
in reply to: rwatson654

This was posted a year ago but still is very applicable. 

http://www.civil3d.com/2009/11/new-computer-windows-7-and-an-interview-with-peter-funk/

 

HTH

Josh Modglin
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Message 6 of 14
mohammediab
in reply to: rwatson654

Dear All,

 

I'm in the same problem, I need to buy new laptop to work with Civil 3D 2011, can anyone give me a good support in that?

 

does anyone know about this model ASUS G53Jw

Message 7 of 14
Sinc
in reply to: mohammediab

 


@mohammediab wrote:

 

does anyone know about this model ASUS G53Jw


That looks like it should work - just make sure you get 8GB RAM.  That small screen might be annoying, too, but the specs claim in can get full 1920x1080 resolution, so that might be OK.

 

Sinc
Message 8 of 14
mohammediab
in reply to: rwatson654

thanks a lot for your reply ...

 

what do you think about this laptop

 

Asus

 

Core I7  740, 6 G ram, 1 G Ati Card, HD led 15.6'

 

Message 9 of 14
d_reno
in reply to: rwatson654

using a Dell Precision at work. quad core, 6MB RAM, 1MB dedicated video RAM. at home I use an Asus machine built for gaming that has a dual core, 8MB RAM, and 1MB (I think, it may be two) dedicated video RAM. the Asus cost about a third of what the Dell did, and I have zero complaints. I do a lot of intense 3D work, and I have gone into 3dorbit on the most intense dwg I could find - with surfaces, feature lines, 3dpolys, etc., and tried to crash it and I couldn't. on the Dell, though, I corrupt dwgs fairly regularly using 3D commands like feature lines.


David Renaud, RLS
C3D 2012 on 64bit Win 7 all up to date
Dell Precision 7core 8GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M
LDT/C3D user since release 12
Message 10 of 14
mohammediab
in reply to: rwatson654

Thank a lot Reno, some people told me that it's not enough that you have a high configuration to deal with Civil 3D 2011, it depends also on the manufacture of the laptop ... I see a ASUS model which it expensive more than Dell, Core I7 740, 8 GB ram, 1.5 GB GTX video, display is 3D with glasses, turbo cooling system, 

 

I'm so disturbance, because I have to buy one and I don't want to buy anything :S

Message 11 of 14
d_reno
in reply to: mohammediab

I understand your pain! I paid about $1100 USD for my Asus about a year and a half ago. A similar Dell would cost about $2500 - 3000. when I got mine 17 core processors didn't exist at the time! The machine you describe would be, in my opinion, plenty to run C3D. you could probably do with much less. my Asus is about the same, but with the dual core only processor, and as I said before, it hasn't failed me yet.


David Renaud, RLS
C3D 2012 on 64bit Win 7 all up to date
Dell Precision 7core 8GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M
LDT/C3D user since release 12
Message 12 of 14
mohammediab
in reply to: d_reno

thank you 🙂

Message 13 of 14
OMCUSNR
in reply to: mohammediab

Any screen size under 17" is a waste of money.  With the menu structure currently being used by ACAD/C3d, you need (not want, NEED) a 17" screen to do anything but pan & zoom.

 

DO NOT CONSIDER ANY LAPTOP WITH A SCREEN SIZE LESS THAN 17" FOR ANY SERIOUS WORK.

 

For a good value and performance, check out the Qosmio machines from Toshiba.

 

Reid

Homebuilt box: I5-2500k, MSI P67A-GD65, 12gig DDR3 1600 ram, ASUS ENGTX460 Video card, WD Velociraptor WD4500HLHX HD, Win 7 64 pro.
Message 14 of 14
mohammediab
in reply to: OMCUSNR

thanks a lot for your kind reply ... I'll take that into my consideration ...

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