Re: Solid edge .. progress... new laptop

On Aug 4, 11:53=A0am, j <j...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Did you get it from Dell or Ebay. What video card does it have. What
> processor is it. Is it running Vista or XP. How much memory included. I
> find that the touch pad is lousy for cad work so I use a mouse with
> Spaceball.

seems to be a seconds dealer selling exclusively for dell on ebay
judging by
the box and his other offerings... nothing but new dell computers.

>
> Take a look atwww.myigetit.comfor some additional training. They have
> a Solidedge bundle available for $25.00. I've been taking their UG
> bundle and it seems to be pretty decent training and for 25.00 it's
> cheaper than a book. Since you have 2 monitors you could open the
> training on one monitor & have SE open on the other one.
>
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> phil scott wrote:
> > the new laptop =A0dell 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, =A0it went into total glitch mode... otherwise its a good
> > machine. =A0 =A0as it turns out so far not much faster than my 500
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> > 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. =A0Fix 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. =A0 =A0without 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. =A0(Dell uses intel)
>
> > be sure to get the glossy screen.. =A0 =A0street prices on ebay are
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> > half list price... looks like custom orders not picked up. =A0.. it
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> > in a dell factory box, with all factory docs and original lables
> > etc... quality merchandize but not to order is all. =A0 =A0saved me
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> > bucks.
>
> > i got a 17" second monitor, touch screen..that will save all that
> > mousing around and aiming the little arrow thang... =A0 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
>
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