Laptop for Revit

[Arnel Aguel]

Hi everyone just need some advice.

My boss is asking me what is the recommended hardware specifications of a laptop for revit use. Can we get it at more or less 1500 dollars?

Any thought will be greatly appreciated. Thnx

[aaronrumple]

I have two Dell's... I've been very happy with both of them. I'm currently running a Dell 8200 which is as good as most workstations.

[JamesVan]

What I've found is that you can get a descent processor and tons of RAM in a good laptop, however, the video RAM is usually less than that of the standard workstation. The usual 32Mb of video RAM in a laptop pales in comparison to the 128 or 256Mb cards in today's workstations. This translates into slower regens when panning around and selecting objects. Gets really annoying on larger projects.

[aaronrumple]

the Dell 8200 has a 64mb Nvidia GeForce and a 15.1" display with 1600x1200 resolution.

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[Arnel Aguel]

Thanks a lot guys for your valuable input.

Hope that those are within our budget 1500 to 1700 dollars.

I'll check it out.

[aaronrumple]

...look at the Dell refub list if you are on a tight budget. I've had several friends buy these and the systems are as new and tend to be only 3-6 months behind "state of the art"...

[overcaffeined1745]

I have two Dell's... I've been very happy with both of them. I'm currently running a Dell 8200 which is as good as most workstations.

I'm indeed considering a laptop as my possible upgrade, instead of a desktop. However, I found some posters at usenet who claim that their new laptops are noticeably slower than their desktops for some applications.

Did anybody test this with Revit? Will Revit run as fast on a 2.8GHz laptop as on a 2.8GHz desktop? And what about the latest P4-hiperthreading? Any experiences?

If possible, I'd prefer to get a laptop, but I'm looking for the fastest performance. If a desktop is noticeably faster, I might choose it.

[Kroke]

If you can't afford an Alienware, get a dell inspiron. Try to get the Radeon chipset vid cards, they rawk. I've also been using an Inspiron 8200 2.2 gh, 64 mb radeon 9000 laptop, and it smokes.

[PeterJ]

May I be the first in line with the begging letters, James?

[overcaffeined1745]

If you can't afford an Alienware, get a dell inspiron. Try to get the Radeon chipset vid cards, they rawk. I've also been using an Inspiron 8200 2.2 gh, 64 mb radeon 9000 laptop, and it smokes.

I prefer nvidia because I always use a dual Windows/Linux installation, and nvidia has had acceptable Linux OpenGL drivers for a long time. After searching the web, I found that all users with nvidia-based laptops were able to get accelerated 3D on Linux, while most ATI users had to switch to unaccelerated 3D.

I found some interesting prices for some Toshiba P4 nvidia-based laptops, but I'll also check Dell.