Laptop compatible?

[countersunk]

I was thinking about buying a new Sony Vaio laptop (Model: VGN-NW270F/T) and the graphic card is listed as below.

Mobile Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD

I checked SW website and, since this is a new type of card for decoding blu-ray as well as graphics, it's not listed.

I'll be running SolidWorks 2009 and I just wanted to see if anyone is using SW with this type of graphics card.

 

[AnnaWood]

This type of graphics card will never be on the approved graphics card list for SolidWorks.

The Sony Vaio is not considered or designed to be a workstation class laptop. It is designed for general home use and multi-media digital entertainment with the HDMI video port.

Will this be a full time SolidWorks computer or just to do hobby type projects in SolidWorks?

Cheers,



Anna Wood
Anna Built Workstation, Core i7 EE965, FirePro V8700, 12 gigs of RAM, OCZ Vertex 120 Gig SSD
SW2010 SP0, Windows 7

http://www.solidmuse.com

http://www.phxswug.com

 

[countersunk]

It will be my home computer, not a full time design center. I will be using it to do some VBA and setups and also some design work.

The reason I was asking is because the company I work for has a Dell laptop that's not a high dollar design center and it runs SW fine. I'm not sure what model it is.

Does anyone have a laptop with SW loaded on it that they would recommend?

 

[AnnaWood]

countersunk,

If you are not using this full time for SW and you are willing to accept possible issues with not getting a computer with an approved SW video card. Then this computer will work as well as any other laptop computer out there.

Cheers,

Anna Wood
Anna Built Workstation, Core i7 EE965, FirePro V8700, 12 gigs of RAM, OCZ Vertex 120 Gig SSD
SW2010 SP0, Windows 7

http://www.solidmuse.com

http://www.phxswug.com

 

[ChrisDuncan]

Shop around, you can get a 17" Asus for the same price.

The most affordable laptop with an SW approved card is about $2500?

Has anyone seen an approved graphics laptop at a better price?

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

http://www.dell.com/outlet

http://www.hp.com/sbso/buspurchase_refurbished.html