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21-Topaz II
October 3, 2011
Question

Notebook workstations

  • October 3, 2011
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1 - They are almost as powerful as desktops, but any workstation class
laptop you get should out run your 10 year old box handily. The
performance gap these days is minimal. Make sure you're getting
workstation class graphics, preferable Nvidia Quadro.



2 - Laptops aren't as durable or expandable as desktops. You're not
going to get 10 years out of your laptop, especially if you tote it
around a lot. 5 is a long time for a laptop.



3 - We use Dells and have been very happy with them.



Doug Schaefer

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13-Aquamarine
October 3, 2011
Some laptops throttle back the cpu when operating on the battery. Could that be the issue?

David Haigh
1-Visitor
October 3, 2011
No doing all testing while hardwired.
1-Visitor
October 3, 2011
I have these units for all Wildfire users here: Dell M6500 lap top with Nvidia Quadro FX 3800m

I have the issue stated below.

Just so you all know, I have PTC looking at this and there appears to be a problem with the system performance when running Wildfire in a linked session with PDMLink. The systems work fine outside of PDMLink. I hope to have a resolution soon. Additionally, for your information we are using Wildfire 5.0 M100 and Windchill/PDMLink 9.1 M060, IE 7 - 64 bit Windows 8.


Any one out there using the stated system and video card experinecing difficulties with the driver for the card? Is your graphics sluggish? Does the drag and drop of your insert mode move in a "one off" manner? The drive i have is dated 12\16\2009 8.16.11.8843. Is there a newer one that works. I tried a newer dell driver and one generated by Nvidia which is newer but works worse than the dell one. Additionally, I had to install a thrid party software called Riva Turner to make the original driver work slightly better. It totally sucks and both dell and Nvidia do not seem to have answers.