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Computer setup for solo operation – Advice please (LONG)
Wendell replied 10 years, 8 months ago 18 Members · 23 Replies
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I bought a Dell M6500 through Dell last week, high-res 17″ laptop with i7 quadcore, came out to $455. It’s really insane how cheap the off lease equipment is sold. I just got it in and loaded civil3d on it and ordered 16GB or RAM for it. Money well spent on a machine that is a few years old.
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I absolutely love it. It’s my second Asus and both have been phenomenal. The one thing I did do to it is replace the HDD with an SSD, then put the HDD in a slot that replaces the DVD drive as a second drive. I then bought an external USB case for the DVD drive. It was already a screamer, now it’s just flat out amazing.
I haven’t upgraded the RAM, but that’s probably the only thing left to do, if and when I feel like I need it. Right now, I don’t see the point.
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I could see where more RAM would be beneficial for high-end software and calculation needs. I don’t really seem to need it.
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