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    Laptop fight!

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by oerjan, Mar 10, 2005.

  1. oerjan

    oerjan Newbie

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    I am in the depth of detemine my hardest struggle!!!!

    Whitch laptop for my need! And money...

    I like to watch dvd, like the cool quality.

    I do a look of Photomixing.

    Have at lot of mp3

    And I studie like eenginer, use cad a lot, catia.


    Then a do a lot of travel...

    At first I started looking at Dell inspiron 9300. But no! To big... Then Inspiron 6000. But no again...Think its to slow for cad.

    So M70!?

    Need all help I can get...

    Greatings... Orjan In Sweden
     
    oerjan, Mar 10, 2005
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  2. InTheSticks

    InTheSticks Notebook Geek

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    I am also having a hard time deciding which notebook would be best. I am also going to use it for CAD, graphics, digital photography, desktop publishing, and web editing. I am trying to decide between the Inspiron 9300 and the Precision M70 Workstation. Both are expensive, once configured the way you want them; but the 3 year warranty with the M70 is appealing.

    I am sure the 9300 can be configured with everything to handle CAD applications. Either way, I think the 9300 or the M70 are the only two computers you could use for CAD. While researching my own needs (which are similar to yours), I found that I needed a Pentium M at least the 725 series; 512MB of memory; no less than a 15.4" display; and at least 128 MB of dedicated video RAM. For what you do, you'll probably want to add more memory and get the 256MB video RAM.

    Good luck! Maybe some of these "pros" in here will have more input on this one.
     
    InTheSticks, Mar 13, 2005
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