Could use a few ideas please

theboss80

Hi Guys,

Im looking 2 buy a new laptop. Im going to college and am gonna be doing a course that involves CAD. Be great that my laptop would be high enough spec thats I could do my projects on it. This means detailed graphics.

Other than that all i would be using it for will be the general web browsing we all do and some music and movie downloading. I wouldnt be doing any gaming on it at all.

Already been recommended the HP DV6- Any good u think?

Budget = €700

I dont know much about the spec and stuff so dont confuse me with a big list of stuff unless u can explain why i'd need it, thanks

cherryghost

autocad itself doesnt render complex graphics, so a decent processor and any type of gfx chipset, i.e intel x3100 or better would suffice. 2gb ram would be minimal on vista/windows 7, autocad is heavily reliant on the ram.

http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?b&c=ie&cs=iedhs1&kc=NRS17501&l=en&oc=N0075005&rbc=N0075005&s=dhs&fb=1

have a fiddle around there, get yourself a core 2 2.0ghz for a good start, 3/4gb ram, a decent sized hard drive (more than 160gb), and in an ideal situation, an Nvidia or ATI graphics card.

generally speaking, you could walk away with a fully functioning autocad student machine for about 400-450, but an extra 100 on ram and a better processor makes a noticeable difference

theboss80

cherryghost wrote: »

autocad itself doesnt render complex graphics, so a decent processor and any type of gfx chipset, i.e intel x3100 or better would suffice. 2gb ram would be minimal on vista/windows 7, autocad is heavily reliant on the ram.

http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?b&c=ie&cs=iedhs1&kc=NRS17501&l=en&oc=N0075005&rbc=N0075005&s=dhs&fb=1

have a fiddle around there, get yourself a core 2 2.0ghz for a good start, 3/4gb ram, a decent sized hard drive (more than 160gb), and in an ideal situation, an Nvidia or ATI graphics card.

generally speaking, you could walk away with a fully functioning autocad student machine for about 400-450, but an extra 100 on ram and a better processor makes a noticeable difference

Ok so is this really what id be looking at? it came out at €763.99

Components
COLOUR CHOICEObsidian Black colour with custom high-gloss finishedit
PROCESSORIntel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T6500 (2.1GHz, 800MHz, 2MB)edit
OPERATING SYSTEMGenuine Windows Vista® Home Premium SP1 (64 BIT) - Englishedit
OFFICE SOFTWAREMicrosoft® Office 2007 Home and Student/ English - Microsoft® Word, Excel, OneNote, PowerPointedit
HARDWARE SUPPORT 1 Year Limited Warranty - Collect & Returnedit
LCD17.3" WLED High Definition + (1600 x 900) TFT Display with TrueLife™edit
MEMORY3072MB 800MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [1x2048 + 1x1024]edit
HARD DRIVE320GB (5,400rpm) Serial ATA Hard Driveedit
GRAPHICS CARD512MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD4330edit
OPTICAL DRIVEDVD +/- RW Drive (read/write CD & DVD)edit
PRIMARY BATTERYPrimary 6-cell 48 WHr Lithium Ion batteryedit
WIRELESS CONNECTIVITYIntel WiFi Link 5100 (802.11 a/b/g/n 1X2) 1/2 MiniCardedit
WEBCAM1.3 Mega pixel Integrated Web Camera

Total €763.99

theboss80

sorry bout that, i thought u just gave me the link to build the machine and hadnt realised you had done it for me. Thanks very much, looks good to me.