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I need a laptop for Inventor

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Message 1 of 14
Anonymous
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I need a laptop for Inventor

I need help choosing a laptop to run Inventor 6. I will be working with 100 max. part assembies. I'm looking for what to stay away from, and what has worked well for others. Also RAM amounts, processor speed, and video card specs would be great.
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Message 2 of 14
tbrack
in reply to: Anonymous

The main one mentioned here is the Dell M50; pricey though.
Message 3 of 14
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Internally, we use a lot of IBM ThinkPad
A31p's

 

Mine is a 1.8GHz processor w/1GB Ram and a 50GB
harddrive

 

It handles Inventor nicely...  
;-)

 

I suspect its pricey.

 

G
Message 4 of 14
MechMan_
in reply to: Anonymous

Luckily with such small assembiles you won't need a big buck laptop. I'd suggest getting around a 2GHz Intel P4 or AMD XP CPU and 512MB RAM (minimum). The most difficult thing is getting a laptop WITHOUT an ATI video card in it. ATI cards in laptops are running rampant these days. They do great for most users but can be a death sentence for us IV users. Try to get a laptop with a nVidia graphics card. Increase your RAM and CPU spec as your budget allows.



As far as brand of laptop I think you'll do fine with almost any major brand as long as they offer something other than an ATI graphics card. Dell, Toshiba, Compaq, IBM, HP,...they're all good.



MechMan
Message 5 of 14
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

What Video Card are you using
Message 6 of 14
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

ATI Fire GL7800 w/64MB
Message 7 of 14
MechMan_
in reply to: Anonymous

I find it interesting that Autodesk would give you an IV computer running a uncertified video card. I guess the IV video card certification page is kind of a "do as we say, not as we do" statement. B-)

MechMan
Message 8 of 14
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

I am often the only person who can reproduce
unusual video anomalies... it makes me feel special.
Message 9 of 14
MechMan_
in reply to: Anonymous

LOL, I have a friend who has that same special talent when it comes to crashing Windows NT. B-)

MechMan
Message 10 of 14
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Brett,

 

An alternative to the M50 was the Inspiron 8200 - I
run one with a P41.6 Mhz, 1 Gig ddr ram, 30 gig hard drive, and GeForce 4 go (64
meg).. It handles Inventor just fine. Actually I use it for presentations of
Inventor.

 

The Dell 8500 is now available which has a good
configuration (the most important is the graphic card with 64 megs of ram) -
although it is only several hundred dollars cheaper that the Dell M50 with a
Quadro 700 graphic card.

 

Stan


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I
need help choosing a laptop to run Inventor 6. I will be working with 100 max.
part assembies. I'm looking for what to stay away from, and what has worked
well for others. Also RAM amounts, processor speed, and video card specs would
be great.
Message 11 of 14
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

I keep looking at these on Ebay, but I am chicken He has a number of different ones
with the geforce4 go chip.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3404391809&category=undefined

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Kent
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> Brett,
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> An alternative to the M50 was the Inspiron 8200 -
Message 12 of 14
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

The other alternative to the M50 is the Fujitsu
Celsius - it's the only other big name system that I know of that uses the
Quadro4 togo video.

It's only a few hundred less than the Dell - but it
has a cool removable keyboard using BlueTooth.

 


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Brett,

 

An alternative to the M50 was the Inspiron 8200 -
I run one with a P41.6 Mhz, 1 Gig ddr ram, 30 gig hard drive, and GeForce 4 go
(64 meg).. It handles Inventor just fine. Actually I use it for presentations
of Inventor.

 

The Dell 8500 is now available which has a good
configuration (the most important is the graphic card with 64 megs of ram) -
although it is only several hundred dollars cheaper that the Dell M50 with a
Quadro 700 graphic card.

 

Stan
Message 13 of 14
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

MechMan,

 

I also use the same type of laptop that Gary
uses. 
Although the name of the graphics
card is ATI Fire GL 7800,
it's actually ATI
Radeon 7200/7500 DDR, which is certified with limited CAD functionality (yellow
triangle).

 

I personally wouldn't recommend this card because
of several problems mentioned in the Autodesk Inventor Graphics webpage:
href="http://www.autodesk.com/us/inventor/graphic_cards">http://www.autodesk.com/us/inventor/graphi...

 

Glenn


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I
find it interesting that Autodesk would give you an IV computer running a
uncertified video card. I guess the IV video card certification page is kind
of a "do as we say, not as we do" statement.
B-)

MechMan
Message 14 of 14
rllthomas
in reply to: Anonymous

I just ran accross this tonight. www.netlux.com They have geforce4 mobile pretty attractivly priced. I have not done business with them and can not say they are good or bad, merely a web link I ran across and thought I would share.

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