Solid edge .. progress... new laptop

the new laptop  dell m6300 needed a lot of configuration, meantime i
was wondering why things were so difficult.

the mouse pad did a click at the faintest touch.... and if you had any
sticky on yer fingers from drinking beer while you type, smoke crack
or anything,  it went into total glitch mode... otherwise its a good
machine.    as it turns out so far not much faster than my 500 dollar
compaq... and it has a non glare screen... dullllll...

also the high res screen makes the icons small, some dont enlarge
either.. some of those were 1/8" square with graphics in them you need
to see.  Fix was going to larger type but not on the usual menu's and
'sharp type'..back to high res screen, then 'large buttons'.. its now
readable.    without the nonglare screen, it would be even more
readable.


Intel may well be slower than AMD for graphics...I notice a lot of
high end cad machines use AMD with ATI cards... my 500 dollar compaq
has that set up.. its not slow on cad at all.  (Dell uses intel)

be sure to get the glossy screen..    street prices on ebay are about
half list price... looks like custom orders not picked up.  .. it came
in a dell factory box, with all factory docs and original lables
etc... quality merchandize but not to order is all.    saved me 1500
bucks.

i got a 17" second monitor, touch screen..that will save all that
mousing around and aiming the little arrow thang...   i also got a
wacom intuos 3 tablet.. (high res graphics pad)..that with the pen
makes a great mouse hopefully, it has buttons on the pen... you can
get those new on ebay in the 160 dollar range.


SE after about 50 hours of doing its tutorials turns out to be about
1/5th as difficult to learn as Inventor, but still not easy... the
tutorials are excellent but still there must be a less pedantic time
consuming way to learn... a brain transplant or something.


if I ever do a training course it would be mostly narrative..' listen,
look at the screen, and do'...with a wireless pause button on the
recording.

for us old farts taking your eyes away from the screen and having to
remember what was typed in the tutorial slows things up a lot.



the latest semi inside info on the synchronous release is mid
August.... it goes to production..thats the tennative 'release' date..
so it would be late august before its manufactured and we get it in
the mail.... my guess is september....I think there will be more last
miinute tweeks...

.. I will probably slide my first synch class to Oct or Nov.




Phil scott