Laptop for ProE WF 5

[Pawel200510]

Hello everybody,

I'm looking for a laptop with Windows 7 for ProEngineer WF 4.0 (64bit). What laptop, graphic card, RAM, company (DELL, HP, Toshiba) do you ricommend? I would like working with big assembly, so card should be quite good. I also find in web site PTC that they recommended Nvidia Quadro FX, but it is very expensive. I have about $900. Could you help me? Pls anser for following questions:
- what graphic card
- what processor
- which laptop (dell?)

Thanks for advices.

 

[looslib]

You won't find a new computer capable of running Pro/E for that price.

You need a Win7-64 Profssional OS with 8GB of memory and a Quadro FX graphics card. A dual-core i5 or i7 CPU.
Dell's 4500 mobile workstation comes in at just over $1600 with those specs.


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Ben Loosli

 

[Jabberwocky]

If it doesn't have to be Windows 7, I've had no problems with WF5 on an XP (SP3) machine - 3GHz Core2 Duo with 3Gb of RAM. Granted I don't push very large assemblies but still...

 

[Pawel200510]

hi Jabberwocky,
thanks for answer.

What graphic card do you have? This is the most important

 

[Jabberwocky]

I guess I should've mentioned this is on a desktop, and it was already set up for pushing other CAD like Inventor and SWx.

The card is indeed a Quadro FX 1700...

 

[TED7]

The reason the Quatro FX (or Fire GL if you're looking at ATI) canrds are recommended is because they are tested and certified with drivers optimised for CAD applications. The actual hardware of the top level 'pro' card is probably equivalent to an 'upper medium' range 'gamer' card. The components may be of a higher grade and it is certified but you wont be getting much better performance (so much so to the extent that you can sometimes work out which consumer card its based on and trick the system into thinking its got a workstation card in. Note however in Solidworks, not having a workstation card will lose you the 'realview' display option if you like looking at shiny models.

Will
Sheffield UK
Designer of machine tools - user of modified screws

 

[LawrenceS2]

@Ninja182: Modern "Gamer" cards are designed to use the DirectX APIs (

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX).

The Quadro FX and Fire GL cards are both designed to use OpenGL (

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL),

which is Pro|E's preferred method.

It is possible to get by on a high end card, but you will still suffer a significant performance loss.

 

[Pawel200510]

Thanks for your advise. The laptop will be desired especially for 3D design like ProE.
Please have a look below. I find some laptop. Could you help me which should I buy? Thank you in advance.

Proposition 1. DELL Inspiron 15R
-procesor Intel Core i3 380 2,53 GHz, 3 MB Cache
- 15,6”, WXGA 1366x768
- 3 GB RAM memory
- 320 GB hard drive
- ATI Radeon HD5650 1GB
- Multi DVD+/-RW/RAM
- 4 hours work
- 2,8 kg, WiFi, Bluetooth
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
- 24 month guarantee
Price: 550€

Proposition 2. DELL Inspiron 15R
-procesor Intel Core i3 370 2,4 GHz, 3 MB Cache
- 15,6”, WXGA 1366x768
- 4 GB RAM memory
- 500 GB hard drive
- ATI Radeon HD5650 1GB
- Multi DVD+/-RW/RAM
- 4 hours work
- 2,8 kg, WiFi, Bluetooth
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
- 24 month guarantee
Price: 612€

Proposition 3. DELL Inspiron 17R
-procesor Intel Core i5 460 2,4 GHz, 3 MB Cache
- 17,3”, WXGA 1600x900
- 4 GB RAM memory
- 640 GB hard drive
- ATI Radeon HD5470 1GB
- Multi DVD+/-RW/RAM
- 3,5 hours work
- 3,2 kg, WiFi, Bluetooth
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
- 24 month guarantee
Price: 850€

Proposition 4. SAMSUNG NP-RC720-S03
-procesor Intel iCore i5 2410M 2,3 GHz, 3 MB Cache, Turbo Boost
- 17,3”, LED HD 1600x900
- 4 GB RAM memory
- 500 GB hard drive
- GeForce GT520M 1GB
- Multi DVD+/-RW/RAM
- 2,5 hours work
- 2,6 kg, WiFi, Bluetooth
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
- 24 month guarantee
Price: 700€



Proposition 5. HP 8530w
-procesor INTEL CORE 2 DUO P8700 2,53 MHz x 2
- 4 GB DDR II
- 160 GB SATA II
- TFT 15,4" WSXGA+ 1680x1050
- DVD-RW LIGHTSCRIBE
- QUADRO FX770M - 512 MB up to 1800 MB
- 2,5 hours work
- WiFi, Bluetooth
- Windows 7 64 bit
- 24 month guarantee
Price: 750€


Proposition 6. DeLL LATITUDE E6510
-procesor INTEL CORE i7 720 QM (1,6 GHz, 6 MB Cache, turbo boost up to 2,8GHz)
- 4 GB DDR III
- 250 GB SATA 7200 obr/min
- 15,6" LED HD 1600x900
- DVD+/-RW
- QUADRO NVS 3100M - 512 MB
- 2,5 hours work
- WiFi, Bluetooth
- Windows 7 Pro 64 bit
- 36 month guarantee
Price: 1150€


Proposition 7. DeLL LATITUDE E6410
-procesor INTEL CORE i5 520 M (2,4 GHz, 3 MB Cache, turbo boost up to 2,9GHz)
- 4 GB DDR III
- 160 GB SATA 7200 obr/min
- 14,1" LED WXGA
- DVD+/-RW
- QUADRO NVS 3100M - 512 MB
- 4 hours work
- WiFi, Bluetooth
- Windows 7 Pro 64 bit
- 36 month guarantee
Price: 850€


Proposition 8. HP ELITEBOOK 8440P
-procesor INTEL CORE i5 520M (2x2,4 GHz, 3 MB Cache, turbo boost up to 2,9GHz)
- 4 GB DDR III
- 250 GB SATA II 7200 obr/min
- 14" WXGA
- DVD+/-RW
- QUADRO NVS 3100M - 512 MB
- 4 hours work
- 2,4kg, WiFi, Bluetooth
- Windows 7 64 bit
- 36 month guarantee
Price: 550€

Maybe you have any offer. If yes pls copy the link.

 

[looslib]

I think your option #5 is the only one with a certified craphics card, but the Inspirion series as a whole are not certified machines by PTC.


"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli