Do I need a better computer?

[gameschess]

I am using a work laptop with the following specs...
Processor: Xeon E3-1535M v6 3.1 GHz
RAM: 32 GB
GPU: Nvidia Quadro P4000
It's an HP ZBook 17 G4

Anyways... I am working with a file which contains aerials and surfaces for 4000 Acres and it's just terribly slow.... I feel like the computer has some nice specs, but my workflow is being bogged down. I did not create the base files, but they seem to be decent. Would it be worth it to me to upgrade or do you think there is something in the files that is slowing it down?

Even if I upgrade, i'm not sure what I would upgrade from those specs....

Inputs and thoughts welcome.

Thanks

[gotphish001]

Seems like a good computer. We don't know what all is in the file, but just 4000 acres seems like a lot. Can you freeze some layers to speed it up? Maybe you can find a layer that is the culprit. Isolate what part you are working on?

[gameschess]

I tried to clean up the document as much as I could, I'm just curious if i'm not doing something correct. Recently I found just freezing surface layers doesn't stop them from being generated, I had to go into the surface style and create a No-Style with everything turned off to get it to stop generating. It's also on a network with 10+different offices... if it's a network thing then I have no control over it.

[gotphish001]

You could save it to your desktop and try it from there to see if it was still slow. If it wasn't then network is the issue. 

[pendean]

Well, a desktop workstation would be faster than your "workstation" laptop, but at some point not too far an upgradeto your basic spec the ROI on PC specs vs performance gain becomes illogical. The myth of faster hardware means faster software died in the last decade with AutoCAD.

Define "terribly slow" for us.

[ChrisRS]

I'm not an expert on this, but:

Workflows can impact performance. $0 acres seems big. As previously mentioned, turn off layer you do not need. If you are working in specific areas you can clip the xreffed base drawings and use demand loading to lessen the amount of information that AutoCAD is working with.