[hyltom]

Any thought about the Dell Inspiron 640m with core duo T2500 and 2gb of ram and resolution at 1440 x 900? Is it a computer suitable for maxwell(with some long hour of rendering) and rhino 3.0 (soon 4.0)? I'm afraid it will be on fire?

[Maximus3D]

Recent certain explosive problems with Dell laptops would make me to think atleast twice about wasting money on one.

You don't want to sit with a bomb like this on your lap then you can wave bye bye to your family jewels..



/ Max

[bjorn.syse]

woaw. is that for real? as in a real issue to consider, or could that happen to any brand you reckon?

i'm curious about the duo-core systems. will they decrease render time noticable?

- björn

[andrew hayes]

I have a 9400 with much the same specs and I'm very happy with it. Nothing comes close for the cost and it came with a 3 year warranty and 1 year theft insurance.

[acquiesse]

Hi,
I've got a 9100, not so good of course

Its ok, I've left it rendering for a week without it dieing, my screen is crap though, lacking in colour depth or sharpness...

Oh yes, you also need a JCB to lift the thing!

[Neil Evans]

It's not a dell but I have a Rock laptop and pardon the pun but it does rock!! It is the Xtreme 64, amd athlon 64X2 4200+ with 2Gb ram and a Nvidia Geforce Go 7800 GTX. It blows my dual Zeon 3.2 workstation out of the water!!

The website is www.rockdirect.com/

They also deliver a site faster than Dell. I dropped my Alienware laptop down the stairs on a Monday and had the Rock Machine on Thursday...not back me thinks.

Cheers

Neil