WINDOWS SP2 AND SWX 2004 SP3?

SolidWorks specifically says to not use WinXP SP2 until Swks 2004 SP5.

Judging by some other more adventureous, or reading impaired SWks users, I'ld either wait for SWks 2004 SP5 or reinstall XP SP1.

Bo

is this the thing:

wow. big power. not very good reviews. :~)>

lets see... issues. yes, burning your leg if you put it in your lap!

bob z.

I spent last evening cleaning up the CR*P that autoinstalling SP2 and then removing it caused. The user is now a much happier camper (and smarter). And SW2004 SP4.2 is also happy about it.

Here is the first paragraph from Bob Zee's quoted article:

Have you ever heard the phrase "rowing through the water with a boat anchor attached"? That's what describes the latest ZD7000 Laptop from Hp. At its core, we see the fastest available CPU - an Intel 3.2GHz P4 EE (Extreme Edition with 2MB of L2 Cache) - a great display, built-in wireless, video capture and more. What plagues this notebook is Hp's decision to use a sub-par GPU and mediocre hard drive.

Don't shoot the messenger now. :)

Fastest available? I thought that h> I have a zd7000 coming and was wondering, in short, what issues if any I

I just returned mine! :( --- very sad!

SolidWorks 2005 SP0.1 would NOT work with the Nvidia graphics card (geforce fx go5700). I don't know if 2004 would have any problems tho. I was sad to let go of it however the problems with SolidWorks were just unacceptable. I'd open a assembly with 10~20 parts then RMB from the FM open a part and the display would go crazy! couldn't do anything but shut down SolidWorks. The customer service at HP told me that the zd8000 is coming out soon and has better graphics choices - we'll see. The notebook is great if you can get the display problems worked out or better yet apply the notorious soft quadro patch to it. I had this thing on my desk with a nice cold drink setting right beside the exhaust port... it wasn't cold for very long! This thing really cooks! and eats up the battery quick then running SWs.

On the positive side this thing had everything 4 USB ports, Firewire, RJ45, RJ11, Wireless 802.11G, 4 different smart cards, even inferred! 8X DVD +/-R and the 17 screen WOW! I had the 3.2 EE pentium with 1.5 GB Ram and the 60GB 7200 RPM HD. It cut 30% off the rebuild times from my old Dell 1.5 Ghz and 20% off my 2.2 Ghz. This thing really cooked but was just too expensive to be a DVD player.

AMD is the fastest, but I don't think AMD is available in anything portable that you might use as a workstation.

i was looking at

because that my workstation and ive had decent luck with the box other than the PS going to shit but from a stabilty standpoint i went for the pentium because my laptop experience is none.