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Originally Posted by Acer_Or_IBM
Ouch, no Acers or Thinkpads...Sob*
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he did highly reccomend ibm/lenovo.
filipo if you need more reccomendations for 3D cad notebooks and graphical workstations, i think you should list some of sager, hypersonic, and alienware's 17" dtr notebooks. These Clevo D900 based systems can run 256mb mobile quaddro 1400's, and 512mb quaddro 2500's. Their desktop CPU's and multiple hdd's will reduce battery life a lot, but make them quite capable in any workstation environment.
-Hypersonic-
Their workstation offerings are the EX7 and FX7 (Intel and AMD respectively;under workstations, they have the fusion ex7 workstation, but it isnt any different from their standard ex7) both offer the go1400 and go2500. the EX7 can be had with up to a 3.8ghz intel 670, and the FX7 can be had with up to an FX60, or an Opteron 185(workstation equivalent cpu) Max memory in the EX7 is 4gb, while the FX7's is 2gb. There is room for 2 optical drives and 2 hdd's which maybe put into(but dont have to be) a raid 0 array for speed, or a raid 1 array for redundancy. The biggest hdd offered is a 5400rpm 160gb hdd, while the highest capacity 7200rpm drive is the 100gb. If paired, they would make 320gb and 200gb of total space respectively. Hypersonic offers a 1920x1200 screen, or for a bit less a 1680x1050. In addition You can also order a triple monitor setup and a multimonitor box with additional graphics processors to drive the multiple monitors. The triple monitor unit is fused together ad has not bezel inbetween the screens.
http://www.hypersonic-pc.com/2001/systems-mobile.asp-Alienware-
Their workstation offerings are the MJ-12 m7700i, and MJ-12 m7700a. (Intel and AMD respectively) The Intel model offers the 6800ultra, 7900GTX, and quaddro 2500. It can be had with up to 3 gb of ram, and has the same hdd, cpu, and optical drive choices as the hypersonic's. The AMD version offers a larger line of opteron cpu's, but it only has a 2.2 ghz dual core, some budget opterons, and a 2.8ghz opteron single core. Dual core is a lot more important to some in the workstation environment, as more professional applications utilize it right now than games. Alienware offers the 1920x1200 screen, and for a good deal less, a 1440x900 screen. Besides that, its virtually identical to hypersonics offerings. Alienware offers a very large selection of accesories for its mobile workstations, from headphones and speaker setups to adobe photoshop cs2 and other graphical, audio and video editing software.
http://www.alienware.com/product_pag...ation_all.aspx-Sager-
Their workstation offerings are the 9750(AMD up to single core FX57, or 4800X2)
http://www.sagernotebook.com/pages/n...oductType=9750
and the 9890(Intel-up to 3.8ghz 670)
http://www.sagernotebook.com/pages/n...oductType=9890
besides the intel only being able to have 2gb of memory, there really arent any differences from the other to brands offerings. I'd go into further detail, except im not as "well-read" on sager notebooks as i am on alienware's and hypersonic's. All 3 manufacturers have great offerings and any of the 6 shown would make fine workstation pc's.
