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(Sure we have all heard the horror stories but I have to say, I don’t experience many, maybe we’ve been fortunate) At the time we decided that we could live without RealView but now there is a solution! There was the issue of potential problems with non-certified cards but I have to say apart from the odd “floating” part that is fixed by Ctrl+Q rebuild I’ve never had issues. This post is suppose to be about Graphic Cards! One of the compromises with the XPS was the non-certified Graphic Card and with that no RealView in SolidWorks. Even allowing for the difference in the price of the dollar ($0.92AUD today) it’s a big difference! But I digress. A quick compassion is the same specified (current) Dell Precision M3800, base spec on the USA site – $1,799US on the Australian site – $2,999AUD.
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It wouldn’t be a discussion about tech hardware (or software) without pointing out the huge disparity that we pay in Australia (& I’m sure those in the UK will chime in as well) compared to the US. If I can just get sidetracked for a minute. With a cost that was nearly half that of the Precision ($3000AUD) As we weren’t 100% convinced that a laptop was the way to go it was a good compromise! Over the years I’ve done my best to try & kill it including 48hours at 100%CPU running Render Animations! Sure it was classified as a “gaming” machine but it’s “standard” specification was far and way much better than the “base” specification of the Precision Range. So we settled with the Dell Studio XPS16. The HP xw4400 at the time was 32bit running XP and was no long coping with what we were throwing at it! When we decided that we should look at a laptop the first choice was to look at the Dell Precision Mobile range but at the time we could justify the cost which was around $5800AUD. It’s been close on three & half years since I last used SolidWorks on a Workstation (HP xw4400) with a Certified Graphic Cards (NVIDA Quadro4 750XGL).