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Bluefairy
2015-09-15, 03:25 PM
I currently have a Toshiba Laptop, Qosmio X70­-AST2GX1. Although it's worked for most of my needs for revit in spite of an incompatible graphics card, I've often thought that there must be a better computer out there which would give me at least more speed.

Recently I've been getting ads from a company called Boxx. The laptop is rather expensive but so is DELL. The following link is a laptop configuration by Boxx

http://config.boxxtech.com/products/cf_step2_or.asp?cmdContinue.x=52&cmdContinue.y=20&cmdContinue=Continue&ModelInstanceID=1421&PrevQuoteID=&Enabled=1&cfg26475=32768

Has anyone used this company before and if so what has your experience been?
Is there another company or laptop someone can recommend?

How have you been able to choose a laptop for yourself?

PijPiwo
2015-09-15, 05:10 PM
Boxx is highly regarded manufacturer and its products are top of the line. Too expensive for my budget though. There are some less expensive alternatives, highly customizable and almost as good as Boxx. Take a look at Sager, Origin and @Xi.

Duncan Lithgow
2015-09-16, 07:44 AM
I'd like to add a question. How important do people think it is to use an officially supported graphics card?

MikeJarosz
2015-09-16, 09:01 PM
I find it impossible to keep up with official graphics cards. The official card changes with every new release, except I don't get new hardware every year. The card that I have worked perfectly with R2014, but now my screen fill patterns are all crazy in R2015 --- and, we installed R2016 last week. What matters to me is how the printed output looks. I've given up on screen appearance. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

Then again, not everyone in the office has the same graphics card. Something that looks bad on my screen looks great on another!!!!!:banghead:

dhurtubise
2015-09-17, 06:51 AM
I don't bother much with the graphic card as much as the Direct 3D support :)