Is this mobile Workstation good enough for PTC?

[ptc-5664527]

Hello,

I'm studying engineering science and we focused on CAD - Construction so i need a very good grafikcard from Nvidia Quadro serie, i found on Lenovo this mobile workstation but I dont know whether CAD PTC Creo will work well on this workstation?

http://shop.lenovo.com/de/de/laptops/thinkpad/w-series/w540/

On the other hands there are also Apple Macbooks but how does intel Iris Graphiccard will work on Macbook??

Does anyone use macbook for Creo Applications?=

thanks

Kim

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[JonathanHodgson]

The CPUs on all three options look pretty good.

The graphics card should be OK, I would think, unless you want to handle very large assemblies or use lots of transparency or other 'heavy' textures.

4 GB of RAM should be adequate unless you have very large assemblies; 8 GB should be good for all but the very largest.

Ideally you should check whether this particular machine is 'certified' by PTC, but plenty of people seem to run on non-certified hardware without problems...

HTH!

[ClintWalton · Accepted solution]

Here is the Platform Support page Jonathan mentioned. This is a listing specific machines that have been tested and are supported/certified. He is also correct when saying unlisted machines may never have issues but having a supported machine is a great reassurance.

http://support.ptc.com/partners/hardware/current/support.htm

You didn't mention what release of Creo you intend to use but, for example, here is the Lenovo list for Creo 2.0.

http://support.ptc.com/WCMS/files/138218/en/lenovo_creo2_p10.pdf

Note that the list is not mix-and-match. For instance, if you have a ThinkPad W510, only the NVIDIA Quadro FX880M is supported for Creo Parametric 2.0.