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(@skeeter1996)
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I've got an 8088 processor with a 10trigabyte solid state hard drive. It works really slow, the answer may come up in the middle of the night but it'll find it sooner or later. It's encased in a hermedicaly sealeled case which sustain over 9 g's I'm told. I've never checked it out. Never reboots, loses power, or shuts down for up dates. There's some kind of wifi, but I don't know what it connects to. Answers to vocal commands and something like Bluetooth. Great audio and visual system. It's wasn't made by Dell or Microsoft, or Hp. Herb and Wilma built it. It gets more powerful the older it gets. I take it absolutely everywhere with no problems.

 
Posted : 06/01/2018 11:05 am
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I've got an 8088 processor with a 10trigabyte solid state hard drive. It works really slow, the answer may come up in the middle of the night but it'll find it sooner or later. It's encased in a hermedicaly sealeled case which sustain over 9 g's I'm told. I've never checked it out. Never reboots, loses power, or shuts down for up dates. There's some kind of wifi, but I don't know what it connects to. Answers to vocal commands and something like Bluetooth. Great audio and visual system. It's wasn't made by Dell or Microsoft, or Hp. Herb and Wilma built it. It gets more powerful the older it gets. I take it absolutely everywhere with no problems.

WOW...an 8088? I thought that all of those were in a museum (or my garage) by now. You're having fun with us, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8088

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Posted : 06/01/2018 11:31 am
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It's probably older than an 8088, but that's all I got in the query. I hate you fact checkers.

 
Posted : 06/01/2018 12:15 pm
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I bought this computer last spring and couldn't be more impressed. I have no problem running multiple instances of CAD along with myriads of other programs and haven't ran into any issues.?ÿ In office, I have a docking station with two 27" monitors but it's tough and lightweight enough to travel with, even in the field. Definately an investment but well worth it in my book.?ÿ

Microsoft Surface Book

  • 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7-6600U.
  • 16GB of RAM.
  • 13.5 inch PixelSense Detachable Display.
  • 3000 x 2000 Screen Resolution (267 ppi).
  • Dedicated NVIDIA GPU.
  • 512 GB SSD.
  • Windows 10 Pro.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0163GNS5S/ref=ya_aw_oh_bia_dp?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 
Posted : 07/01/2018 7:36 pm
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That is a pretty impressive computer and reasonably priced. Have you had it long enough to determine how it interacts with Windows 10 yet. I got a Dell with similar specifications, but it crashes alot due to what I suspect is Windows 10 driver problems.

 
Posted : 07/01/2018 9:46 pm
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To cut a long story short, with Win10 (and all its predecessors) and the versions of AutoCAD and its children, no mater what you got under the hood you need to stay on top of all the tweeks. We recently upgraded to Win10 HP PC's and laptops with SSD's and all the gizmos etc. Worked ok out of the box ok, not perceptibly faster than Win7 - except for HD to SSD, but that's for program startup only, not really much use difference "in-program". But then after a month or two they got awfully slow. WWW research led to relatively obscure but necessary fixes, e.g (recently):

1 "dwg-purge app"

2 "Problem was solved when we used the performance degradation hotfix. We had to upgrade all of our machines to 2016 CAD (Civil 3D) and then use the Performance Degradation Hotfix. All you have to do for this hotfix is replace a ".dbx" file in your Autodesk program files. Once that file is replaced, all you need to do is open a drawing and hit "save", then the problem went away for us "

?ÿ

 
Posted : 08/01/2018 1:54 am
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I've had it since April 2017. I've had a few quirks happen with Windows 10 but nothing major. The Spring Creator Build wreaked a little havoc on my 2017 Carlson OEM software but Carlson was swift in helping me solve it.?ÿ I really have been super impressed with the power of this small but powerful machine. Plus there are so many other feature that the Surface Book offers that push it over the top. I highly recommend it.?ÿ

 
Posted : 08/01/2018 2:59 pm
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