Which of these notebooks for Autocad 2005?

[Guest shaolin95]

Hi!

I need to choose between these Dell notebooks for Autocad 2005. That will be its only use.

Regards

 

http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/c...en&s=dhs&~ck=mn

[timpanogos]

I think you will have plenty of power for the app, what I would look for is lots of screen!! get the largest screen size available for your drawings

[Guest shaolin95]

Do you mean any of these Dells have enough power?

[Col.Howard]

I would say that any of those computers have the capapbilty to run acad 2005 well. As tim said, get a large screen...god knows how many times I've had to keep moving a drawing just to chase a dimension from one end of a building to another.

 

ACAD is a very cpu, and very graphics intensive program...I would steer clear of any integrated graphics options Dell offers on the low end notebooks. Make sure the card is Open GL capable, and has at least 64mb of memory...I'd personally go 128 or 256 if possible...more graphics memory, faster the drawings will load, and the faster they will load of you resize, or move them. I'd get atleast 512 of RAM...a gig would be nice too...ACAD is a HUGE program, and takes a pretty minute to load. In the CPU department, I think most anything 1.5 and up will be fine for your needs.

 

Make sure you've got a big eough hard drive to store the files, they can get pretty big when you work with multi-story units or when youve' got plot plans for developments (thats my issue).

 

Hope this helps....got any questions with ACAD...feel free to give me a shout.

[Guest shaolin95]

Super response thanks a lot!

Gonna check them out carefully and pick one.

Regards