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

phil scott wrote:
> 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.
> 
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> Phil scott
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Phil,  Sorry if this is a bit off topic.  In an earlier post you 
mentioned that you got a "killer deal" on SE.  What was it, if you don't 
mind me asking?

It sounded like Siemens offered you some sort of trade-in allowance on 
your existing CAD package.  If so, I might in interest in that, if still 
available.  I have a package I'm currently using, but it's not quite 
doing the job.

Thanks for any info on this.  I appreciate it. -Pat