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    COMPAQ CQ60-A worth deal..

    Discussion in 'HP' started by dogarsahab, Feb 17, 2009.

  1. dogarsahab

    dogarsahab Notebook Guru

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    I want to ask that my friend is planning to buy COMPAQ CQ60...He wants to spend rest of the money on PS3...
    He just watches movies on laptop and doing engineering work+a lot of software testing and websurfing...
    So should he go for CQ60..The specs of this laptop are indeed okay...
    So suggest...???
     
    dogarsahab, Feb 17, 2009
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  2. Tolkannn

    Tolkannn Notebook Evangelist

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    I just looked at it and I think so yeah... It would be a wiser choice
     
    Tolkannn, Feb 17, 2009
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    misterbk Notebook Consultant

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    If his engineering work includes any mechanical design software like AutoCad, SolidWorks, etc., then just be aware that those apps are not rated to run without a qualified OpenGL graphics card. (nVidia's Quadro, ATI's FireGL)

    They might still run. Some are pickier than others. I use Maya, and it tends to glitch out like crazy without a proper OpenGL card.

    If you mean software engineering or programming, then yeah you don't need any special graphics for that.
     
    misterbk, Feb 17, 2009
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  4. dogarsahab

    dogarsahab Notebook Guru

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    hmm...He does some autocad but it is not a heavy one..He just does circuit designing and that's all(it includes MATLAB,HDL and programming)...
    So would it suit him...???
    he doesnt think so that he needs a dedicated graphic card for this purpose!!!
    Am I righT!!!??
     
    dogarsahab, Feb 18, 2009
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