New laptop

[John Evers]

i7 only…do not do an i5

[Mark Mayer]

I think that in time we will find that Win10 is just fine. If you are going to go through the hassle of setting up a new computer, might as well do it only once. Do it in Win10.

[BlakeHuff]

I picked up an i7 HP ENVY laptop this summer. I think you can still order from HP with Win 7.
Surprisingly, the feature I ended up being most impressed with was the backlit keyboard for working in the truck.

[squowse]

BlakeHuff, post: 354404, member: 28 wrote: I picked up an i7 HP ENVY laptop this summer. I think you can still order from HP with Win 7.
Surprisingly, the feature I ended up being most impressed with was the backlit keyboard for working in the truck.

Backlit keyboard is great! I upgraded (swapped out) mine.

[va-ls-2867]

Dell Precision laptop is what I use. Just recently swapped out the hard drive for solid state drive. MUCH faster on boot up. i7 is the only thing I would use for a CAD machine.

[Dan Patterson]

I just got a Lenovo with Win 7 Pro, 16GB RAM, i7 processor, and solid state hard drive (only 250GB, but I keep stuff on my server which is 2TB). The thing is a beast. It was under $900, but I had to look for a while to find it.

[Randy Rain]

VA LS 2867, post: 354419, member: 1444 wrote: Dell Precision laptop is what I use. Just recently swapped out the hard drive for solid state drive. MUCH faster on boot up. i7 is the only thing I would use for a CAD machine.

I second the SSD +16GB of ram minimum

[tickmagnet]

If your running a CAD program you will not want discrete graphics (on board and 2nd graphics card) This caused problems
for autocad 2016. Solved it buy getting a laptop that only had one built in graphics card

[Dan Patterson]

TickMagnet, post: 354427, member: 4378 wrote: If your running a CAD program you will not want discrete graphics (on board and 2nd graphics card) This caused problems
for autocad 2016. Solved it buy getting a laptop that only had one built in graphics card

Did it have anything to do with the hardware acceleration, because that was giving me issues at first…until I turned it off.

[tickmagnet]

Dan Patterson, post: 354428, member: 1179 wrote: Did it have anything to do with the hardware acceleration, because that was giving me issues at first…until I turned it off.

Somewhat, but this did not solve it. I tried 2 laptops with descrete before settling on one without discrete graphics.
One of the systems appeared to run correctly but did not do all of the osnaps just some of them, very strange.
Clearly autocad was not communicating with the graphics system.

[nate-the-surveyor]

It has to have an acad supported graphics card. At least that’s what the computer tech told me today. He said gaming cards don’t work always with AutoCAD it has to be a supported AutoCAD card.
I bought a laptop today it’s about a two and a half year old Dell and it has 16 gigs of ram not a real big hard drive I think it’s about a 300 gig and it has but it has an AutoCAD supported graphics card in it.
I’m going home to try to get it all set up and running. I’ve been without a computer for a week. I’ve learned to use an Android, though.