Laptop

[esgharper]

I am looking at investing in a laptop to use for mechanical design using Inventor 5.3 and eventually 6.0. My biggest hangup now is finding one with a compatible video card. Is there any recomendations. I see Dell has the Precission M50 with the nVidia, Quadro™4 500 GoGL, 64MB card. This unit is nice but a little pricey. Is it possible to find a usable system for less than 2K?

Thanks

[Anonymous]

Toshiba Satellite 5105 Series approx
$2k

Dell Inspirion 8200 approx $2k

IMB ThinkPad (A something models) but they do have
an ATI card... $2.5-$3k

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I
am looking at investing in a laptop to use for mechanical design using
Inventor 5.3 and eventually 6.0. My biggest hangup now is finding one with a
compatible video card. Is there any recomendations. I see Dell has the
Precission M50 with the nVidia, Quadro™4 500 GoGL, 64MB card. This unit is
nice but a little pricey. Is it possible to find a usable system for less than
2K?

Thanks