I ran a business on quite a **** laptop for the first 2 years which I used
for all my invoices and letters and stuff also running AutoCAD r14 and I
didn't go through that much slowdown even on the 3d stuff (average drawing
size was about 3Mb), the only area which was let down was the rendering
but
almost any laptop out now even the cheap ones are fast enough to render in
a
moderatly acceptable time frame, if you want to play games you will need a
good one, try and get one with the newish ati 9600 mobility radeon
graphics
card, I think its available in both 64 and 128Mb, it is the best mobile
graphics card out now. If games aren't going to be played on it then
really
any laptop out there will be sufficiant, it depends on your cash flow and
what features you would like to have: dvd-rw, cd-rw, big screen, storage
devices like all in one card readers (which are great, those SD Cards are
spectacular especially the 256 and 512Mb ones) etc...... I personally
wouldn't go for a Dell like the previouse poster suggested, they are
overpriced and the after sales service from Dell is nothing to write home
about. Computer magazine websites are always a good source for ideas and
are
usually pretty well priced if you live in the UK check out these 2
www.novatech.co.uk and www.inmac.co.uk .
Just to show you how **** my first ever laptop was heres the spec:
P2 333Mhz
6 GB Hard drive
96Mb
13.3" TFT screen
and only a 2Mb integrated graphics card
no built in writers or modem and network cards
You'll find even the cheapest laptop around has much better specs than
that.
Mark
"Tim" <tim-kirkland@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> dell M60
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> "JNJ Eaton, Sr." <jnjeaton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Looking for suggestions on what laptop would be good for CAD and other
> > graphic programs again moderately priced.
> > Any suggestions?
> > ~JNJ~
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