Can I get some advice on what to buy.

J

johnweir

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Hi

I don't know a lot about computers although I rely heavily on them for my work. I am an Architect and designer and therefore spend a lot of time working with different design programs (adobe suite, autocad, rhino 3d, 3d studio max, sketchup, etc.). My current laptop which I have had for around 3/4 years has started to become painfully slow, making it very difficult for me to work and nearly impossible to run more than one of these programs at a time.

I currently have a Dell inspiron 9400 with an intel centrino duo processor with 1GB ram. I want to buy a new laptop and need some advice about what is best for the small amount of money I have. I have around £800 or $1300, I don't really care what make it is I just want something that is powerful enough to run at least 3 of the programs mentioned above at once. I need to be able to flick between programs without it taking 15 minutes. I don't really want a MAC as there expensive and you can't run a lot of the architecture programs on them.

Also if anybody has any advice on how to speed up my current laptop it would be greatly appreciated. I have deleted as much as possible from the memory and I have cleaned the registry, but its still pretty slow.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.
John
 
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220639

The above laptop should meet all of your requirements. Better processor, much better graphics card and a lot more RAM. You can find other similar laptops out there, but I would definitely try to get around these same specs. You'll lose a little screen size, but it's definitely worth it for all the extra power that you're getting.

The best way to increase the performance of your old laptop is to get more RAM in it. Now, unfortunately that laptop has a maximum of 2GB of RAM that can be used in it, which is still probably not going to be enough for what you want to do. You would really need at least 3, preferably 4GB of RAM to make it work relatively smoothly. The bigger problem is that the graphics card is a nVidia Go 7900, pretty good for the time that came out 3 years ago; but just won't cut it for those applications and the current time frame.
 
MAC Book will suits you.
But it is a bit pricy
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