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New Notebook For Autocad Done Cheap

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rlu929s

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If this is even possible. Someone at work wants me to help them find a good notebook system under $1000.00 that will run AutoCad in 3D mode. I don't think it's possible for that price but I thought I'd ask here.

They said they've hard AMD is good and I told them yes it is but more expensive. I've yet to find a decent system with enough RAM etc to meet their needs.

Any suggestions.

So far I've looked at Best Buy, Office Depot, Gateway, Dell, Sagernotebook, Newegg, and alienware with little options.

The best I've found is an Intel Core Duo T2400 with 2GB RAM and the 128MB ATI X1300 card.

Are they dreaming?
 
Originally posted by: rlu929s
If this is even possible. Someone at work wants me to help them find a good notebook system under $1000.00 that will run AutoCad in 3D mode. I don't think it's possible for that price but I thought I'd ask here.

They said they've hard AMD is good and I told them yes it is but more expensive. I've yet to find a decent system with enough RAM etc to meet their needs.

Any suggestions.

So far I've looked at Best Buy, Office Depot, Gateway, Dell, Sagernotebook, Newegg, and alienware with little options.

The best I've found is an Intel Core Duo T2400 with 2GB RAM and the 128MB ATI X1300 card.

Are they dreaming?
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If you've found a laptop for under $1000 with a core duo, 2GB of ram, and an x1300, that's probably about the best you'll do, though I found a Dell for $1048 with those specs but an x1400. (256MB graphics ram)

http://www.dell.com/content/products/fe...px/hot_offers_nb?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd
The Inspiron 6400 after being upgraded. I'd recommend browsing the Dell website and seeing what kind of discounts you can get. A core duo with whatever the fastest graphics card with the most memory you can find would make a nice laptop for autocad, even better if you can find one that includes a quadro or a firegl graphics card.
 
There are NVidia Quadro Go1400 cards and ATI Mobility FireGL V5000 available for laptops. These cards are most appropriate for CAD applications.
The following site is a list made by Matrox of who carries their laptop cards. http://www.matrox.com/graphics/offhome/...rt/dh2go/compatibility_laptop_list.cfm

Included on the list are:
IBM thinkpads T43 series which are about $1200 but i didnt configure one.
Dell Precision M20.
evesham voyager CAD720 (never heard of them before)
fujitsu siemans celsius
hp compaq nw8240

hope this helps
-TL
 
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