About laptops

[Alejandro Testa]

Hi guys, I am going to buy a new laptop, the main object is to use this computer  with Autocad and Accurender when  I am traveling or just out of town and also to show presentations to our clients , this is not going to be my   production computer, but it will help  if  I needed.  We are thinking to spend around 700 U$ and I need at least a 15.6" monitor, if 17 " much better.

What do you think about this models?

Dell - Inspiron

Model: I17RN-5047BK| SKU: 4590243

ASUS

Model: U56E-BAL7

SKU: 4566353

Toshiba Satellite

Model: P755-S5120

SKU: 46931

Any  other suggestion in this range  will be trully aprecciated.

Thanks in advance.

Alejandro

[akinlolu olugboji]

For mobility I say cut down on the size of the monitor as the bigger they are the more power hunger they be and this drains battery fast unless you plan to buy extra batteries and charging them all after use brings another issue.  So my 50 cents, for mobility go for powerfully but small size laptop and as an addition have cables to connect your laptop to monitors and even LCD screen either at the site office or at the hotel.

[Alejandro Testa]

Thanks Akin, I have been thinking about this and talking with Jorge Lara Dominguez and the Toshiba Satellite will be our selection,  also we are planning to update our office computer, my old core quad need 120 hours to solve the panorama image at 2000 x 1000. What do you think is the best approach for a desktop computer . Intel, AMD, Gygabite?  What about video cards?

[Miguel Tano Adanes]

I would have preferred a Dell laptop, but Toshiba goes well! For a desktop computer, go for a Intel Xeon with lots of cores, all your budget can afford, and a Nvidia Quadro graphic card with at least 2gb. Also consoder to buy two monitors... I'm now used to work with two and I would love to have 4!!! Ram for nXt is important if you have lots of big textures to manage... I have 12Gb and I never went out of Ram even using nXt, PS and minor stuff together.

[George Ioannidis]

Consider seriously the new AMD Radeon HD7970 graphics accelerator (for the workstation machine). It has brand new power saving management (consumes in full load just 250W, when HD6970 needs 351W, HD6990 557W!!! and Nvidia GTX 590 "eats" 497W!). In idle mode, HD7970 needs just 62W, while the other three cards need 141, 158 and 171W respectively. And the most significant - it is by far the fastest single GPU video card for PC today, in some tests is even faster than others with two GPUs! Unfortunately, it is the most expensive 3D acceleration card as well, (costs about 530 euros), but still, it is less than the mid range Quadros (NVIDIA QUADRO 2000D 1GB costs some respectable 575 euros). :)

[Alejandro Testa]

Thabks George, I am looking  and asking a lot of people.   I will take a closer  look to this card.

[Alejandro Testa]

Hi guys, I am finishing with the new  desktop configuration .

After looking around I have almost everything clear for the desktop, I only doubt about the video card,  the person in charge of the desktop offer  this video cards.

Which of this  is the best one for Autocad and rendering?

http://la.nvidia.com/object/product-geforce-gt-520-oem-la.html

http://la.nvidia.com/object/geforce_9800gt_la.html

http://la.nvidia.com/object/product-geforce-gts-450-la.html

 http://usa.asus.com/Graphics_Cards/NVIDIA_Series/UL_ENGTX550_Ti_DCD...

Thanks in advance

Alejandro

[Farid M. Noriega]

Alejandro.

Yo te recomendaría una tarjeta Quadro, en poco tiempo tendremos aplicaciones que explotan su potencial.

[Alejandro Testa]

Muchas gracias Miguel por tus comentarios,  originalmente mi opción era la Dell  (tuve una que funcionó bien pero con problemas en varias ocasiones con el video)  y leí algunos comentarios en Internet tanto en la página de best Buy como la de dell que me dejaron preocupado, por eso estamos optando por la Toshiba, además Jorge Lara que trabaja con Toshina me hizo excelentes comentarios. Con respecto al desktop estoy mirando con detenimiento ya  que  estoy algo perdido. Empecé evaluando un I7. Veremos a donde llegamos.

[Farid M. Noriega]

Hola Alejandro.

Yo tambien necesito comprar un laptop por situación similar. Luego me cuentas los resultados de tu experiencia. Algunos amigos me cunsultaron sobre mal funcionamiento de Autocad con trajeta Intel, no cuentas tus aventuras cuando tenga tiempo.

Un saludo.