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Thread ID: 68575 2006-05-03 21:28:00 Laptop advice mejobloggs (264) Press F1
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451860 2006-05-03 21:28:00 Sorry to bug about laptops again.

My brother wants a laptop. Mainly to run solidworks (www.solidworks.com).

They seem to only recommend workstation graphics cards for solidworks, but I don't see any of them in laptops.

I assume a budget laptop graphics card will be better than onboard, so we are wanting a laptop, with a graphics card, with decent enough specs (doesnt matter if it is a wee bit slow), for under $2000.

Know any good ones?

So far I have found this:
Asus A6000 (www.dse.co.nz). Not sure if it is a good price though, havn't look around yet.

It says it has an NVidia® GeForce 7300 with TurboCache supporting 256MB TurboCache Memory. That doesn't mean the gfx card has 256mb does it, it just means that it's shared memory, like onboard gfx?
mejobloggs (264)
451861 2006-05-03 21:48:00 The Dell Precision M65 has workstation graphics. Sb0h (3744)
451862 2006-05-03 22:12:00 Link? I don't see any laptops on dell with that name. mejobloggs (264)
451863 2006-05-04 21:34:00 Try here (www1.ap.dell.com) Sb0h (3744)
451864 2006-05-04 23:01:00 Disk Smith are hard to beat with notebook prices:

www.dse.co.nz

Toshiba with Graphics card and Duo processor. $2198.
Vallis (8886)
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