civil 3d and notebooks

[julia.heinz]

has anyone experience in using Civil 3D 2006 installed on a notebook? We tried it with a Celsius H230 and it seems not to work well.

[dmarx]

has anyone experience in using Civil 3D 2006 installed on a notebook? We tried it with a Celsius H230 and it seems not to work well.

I havent tried it, but you will still need a monster of a machine for it to work...

[MHultgren]

HP is releasing a couple new notebooks that look promising. Workstation power in a laptop, I geuss we will see if they are everything they are promoting them to be in the next few weeks. Unfortunately, the pricing won't be posted until May 22 nd. They were featured links on the AUGI main page yesterday.

[rkmcswain]

has anyone experience in using Civil 3D 2006 installed on a notebook? We tried it with a Celsius H230 and it seems not to work well.

Running 2006 and 2007 on a Dell M70 (1.73GHz, 1.00GB Ram)

It's not a screamer, but it works at an acceptable level.

[Jeepin]

This is just my two cents worth, and I'm sure its only going too add up to one cent. I went to the AUGI Cad Camp in Tampa and all the C3D instructors were using 2 gigs of ram on their note books and the note books were taxed. I aplogize i dont know what kind of note books they were using but they must have been halfway decent if they held 2 gigs of ram. Rich

[sinc]

I aplogize i dont know what kind of note books they were using but they must have been halfway decent if they held 2 gigs of ram. Rich

Amount of RAM is only one thing that determines performance. CPU, bus speed, type of RAM, speed of hard drive, and your graphics card all combine.

I've been hearing good things about the new Intel Duo Core technology.

[melanie.santer]

I run on a HP Pentium 4 CPU 3.20GHz, 2.00 GB or RAM and it works great! I have multiple versions and all kinds of other software loaded with no issues. Please, someone correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that Autodesk products DO NOT take advantage of Duel Core.

Good luck!

[Glenn Pope]

I run on a HP Pentium 4 CPU 3.20GHz, 2.00 GB or RAM and it works great! I have multiple versions and all kinds of other software loaded with no issues. Please, someone correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that Autodesk products DO NOT take advantage of Duel Core.

Good luck!

AutoCAD does to some extent.

Multithreading or multiprocessor capabilities