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