Help for a high school kid using Autodesk Inventor

[Anonymous]

I am looking for a low cost laptop for a friends son who is a high school kid that is using Inventor 11 will this laptop be adequate? They no squat about computers . Will this laptop meet their needs?
HP 15.6" Pavilion G61-511wm Laptop
# AMD Sempron" M100 Processor
Running at a 2.0GHz, 512KB L2 Cache & Up to 3.2GT/s system bus running at Ac/DC mode 25 watt.
# 3GB of DDR2 system memory
# 250GB SATA hard drive
# LightScribe SuperMulti 8X DVD±R/RW with Double Layer Support
# 15.6" Diagonal High DefinitionHP BrightView Display (1366x768)
ATI Radeon" HD 4200 Graphics with 128MB Display Cache Memory AMD RS880M with 128MB GDDR2 (sideport memory) with up to 1534MB total graphics memory

[JDMather]

Inventor 11 is an old release. Students can download the latest Inventor Professional 2010 for free from http://www.autodesk.com/edcommunity

[Anonymous]

Official system requirments here:
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?id=13727144&siteID=123112

JDMather is correct that there is newer software available to students and
we'd love to have everyone using 2010. Keep in mind that Inventor is not
backwards compatible. Basically, it is not ideal if the student is creating
data in a newer version (R2010) and must share it with an older version
(R11).

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Patrick Miller
Autodesk Manufacturing Industry Group
Technical Publications - Subject Matter Expert
Novi, MI
wrote in message news:6281752@discussion.autodesk.com...
Inventor 11 is an old release. Students can download the latest Inventor
Professional 2010 for free from http://www.autodesk.com/edcommunity

[Anonymous]

I've been on vacation so I didn't see this until now, but to add to this,
Inventor 11 probably won't run well unless the laptop is running Windows XP.
It wasn't until 2008 SP1 that it was fairly stable on Vista, and 2008 SP3
for Vista SP1. Vista SP2, I'm not sure about since I was running IV 2009 by
then.

So as others has said, it's best to get the latest student version unless it
has to be compatible with the one running at school, in which then there's
the catch 22 of the OS.

"Patrick Miller (Autodesk)" wrote in
message news:6281931@discussion.autodesk.com...
> Official system requirments here:
> http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?id=13727144&siteID=123112
>
> JDMather is correct that there is newer software available to students and
> we'd love to have everyone using 2010. Keep in mind that Inventor is not
> backwards compatible. Basically, it is not ideal if the student is
> creating data in a newer version (R2010) and must share it with an older
> version (R11).
>
> --
> Patrick Miller
> Autodesk Manufacturing Industry Group
> Technical Publications - Subject Matter Expert
> Novi, MI
> wrote in message news:6281752@discussion.autodesk.com...
> Inventor 11 is an old release. Students can download the latest Inventor
> Professional 2010 for free from http://www.autodesk.com/edcommunity