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Re: Notebook of choice

Hello Erika-

I recommend the Dell M70. Mine is about 6 months old and performs very well.

The default video card is very good. I recently upgraded to 2MB RAM and just ordered a docking station and a second hard drive module. I wish I would have ordered a faster CPU.

Cheers, Devon T. Sowell

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Dell Precision Mobile Workstation M70 Pentium® M Processor 730 (1.60GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 533FSB)15.4 WUXGA LCD M7U16 [221-5394]

Memory FREE UPGRADE! 1GB,DDR SDRAM, 2X512MB for the price of 512MB 1GBDYM [464-1862]

Graphics Card NVIDIA® Quadro® FX Go1400 256MB OpenGL graphics NV41256 [320-3908]

Boot Hard Drives 60GB Hard Drive (7200 RPM) 60I72 [341-0979]

Floppy Drive Options No Floppy Drive Option NFD [340-8870]

Operating Systems Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional, SP2, with Media XPP2E [420-4867]

Modem Internal 56K Modem INTM [313-2583]

Modular Bay Devices 24-24-24X SWDVD/CDRW Combo Drive COMBO [313-2589]

Wireless Local Area Networking Options Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200 WLAN (802.11b/g, 54Mbps) miniPCI Card IPW22LF [430-1387]

Systems Management Dell OpenManage Client Instrumentation OMCI [420-3904]

Resource CD Resource CD - contains Diagnostics and Drivers RCD [420-4533]

Battery 9-Cell Primary Battery 9CELLP [312-0281]

Hardware Support Services 3 Year On-site Economy Plan W3YOS [980-8010] [980-8012]

Onsite System Setup No Onsite System Setup NOINSTL [900-9987]

File System NTFS File System NTFS [420-3699]

Quick Reference Guide Quick Reference Guide REF [310-6443]

Additional Battery 9-Cell Spare primary battery 9CELLP2 [312-0282]

Will one of the many Graphic Artists here with experience, please > recommend which make and model Notebook would be better used with > Solidworks. And should a different than stock item graphics card be > ordered as well? I have learned that as much memory should be ordered > as is possible. > > I would be grateful, > Erika Layne >
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Devon T. Sowell
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Well, it depends mainly on the complexity of the assemblies which you are woking with. For example in our office we use a pair of HP NX6125 notebooks (AMD Turion

2GHz CPU, 1024GB RAM, ATI RadeonX200 graphic chip with 128MB shared memory, 15" 1400x1050 display) and they're just perfect for our needs, but our assemblies rarely reach more than 60 parts.
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secdef

Group,

How would Inspiron 9300,Pentium M 760 (2GHz/533MHz FSB) be with following specs for SW2005/2006 with simple assy (Mostly weldments) less than 40 parts ???

17 inch True Life Wide Screen UXGA for Inspiron 9300

2GB, DDR2, 533MHz 2 Dimm, for Inspiron 9300

256MB NVIDIA 6800,for Inspiron

60GB Ultra ATA 7200RPM Hard Drive for Inspiron 9300

,Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 2, English, for Inspiron

DELL SUPPORT 3.0

Integrated 10/100 Network Cardand Modem, for Inspiron

24X CD-RW/DVD Combo for Inspiron 9200 [Intel PRO/Wireless 2200 Internal Wireless (802.11b/g,54Mbps) for Inspiron 9300

53 WHr 6-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery,for Inspiron 9200

Extra-Large Nylon Deluxe Carrying Case, for Inspiron 9200/9300

Warranty Support,2 Year Extended

Warranty Support,Initial Year

Type 3 Contract - Next Business Day Parts and Labor On-Site Response, 2YR Extended

Type 3 Contract - Next Business Day Parts and Labor On-Site Response, Initial Year

regards....

Singh S.

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Singh S

On a practical note, given the introduction of Intel's next generation Celeron/Yonah Mobile chips a few days back, every manufacturer is going to be discounting the likes of the M70 prior to or simulataneous with the introduction of the newer (& supposedly quite faster and more energy efficient) models.

Bo

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Bo

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