Hello
I am looking to maybe purchase a laptop to run AutoCAD Civil 3d r2012, 2013 or 2014 for teaching a class in the fall. I was wondering if a 64bit Win7/8 laptop with an AMD A-10 CPU/APU will be up to the task. My employer supplied me with a Dell 32 bit laptop running Win7 on an Intel i5 and Intel HD graphics. When I tried to open up a rather large drawing as an example for the class, the AutoCAD Civil 3d 2012 promptly crashed...
Will the AMD CPU be adequate? I am on a tight budget and am trying to avoid shellling out a ton of cash for a more heavily equipped laptop with discreet nVidia graphics.
Rick
ps Should I go with Win7 or Win8?? I'm not sure I'd want Win8...
32 vs 64bit platform is your biggest hurdle. Once you go to 64bit, your installed RAM should be 8GB to start.
The processor sounds fine. Usually on those stock machines, im happy with the middle of the road processor and dump money on RAM, then on the primary drive being SSD and then a normal data drive (HDD).
My 2cents
Kevin
neilyj (No connection with Autodesk other than using the products in the real world)
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