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Laptop for CAD

Post by senorpedro » Wed, Nov 10, 2010, 9:12 AM UTC

Hi folks,

i need a notebook for doing CAD (archicad, rhino, v-ray). I thougt maybe this one http://www.pro-com.org/NOFOST.DE/Pages/ArticleDetails.aspx?ArticleID=17660&BackUrl=769925212

or a macbook with an i7 cpu, but i'm not sure. can anybody recommend a good notebook for doing graphics intensive stuff?

Re: Laptop for CAD

Post by Concours » Wed, Nov 10, 2010, 10:20 AM UTC

the procom software is good, and I'll probably give it a run, I use UG NX and Solidworks and they bth work very good on low end laptops. If you pick a laptop for CAD , just mke sure you have a very good external graphic card and at least a 1,6 Ghz processor (personal experience), if you also plan to do some FEM , you should go with a faster processor. Hope I could help, don't know about the macbook.

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