Graphic Card Help

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M Does anybody know if this is a good graphics card? It's the only graphics card available in the laptop I'm looking at. Running AutoCad I've got to have something that can handle a lot of rendering.This is the notebook I'm looking at, any thoughts on notebooks would be appreciated also. A 17" display is the realistic minimum for working with CAD, otherwise I would probably go with an ASUS. Any thoughts about Toshiba?

Any thoughts or recommendations about this Toshiba?

I'm confused.. You say graphics card.. I think you mean graphics chipset as laptops don't have graphics cards in the literal sense. I always liked HP laptops although the link you posted won't show.Whatever you do buy.. make sure it the graphics has it's own memory (NOT shared).. the more the better.That Toshiba looks nice although on the heavy side.. you going to carry it around alot? Also with the large screen they become cumbersome. My son has an HP 17" widescreen.. heavy and cumbersome.

just make sure it has a fucking sound card.

I'm sure I do mean chipset. I'm not a very computer literate person. How do I know if it has it's own memory?As for being big and heavy that will just have to dealt with. When working with drawings and designs real estate is what it's all about. This should fix the broken link.

Originally Posted By: Grvtykllrjust make sure it has a fucking sound card. Bite me.

Originally Posted By: OldFolks Originally Posted By: Grvtykllrjust make sure it has a fucking sound card. Bite me. No, and I stand by my original mandate.Get one with a sound CHIP SETI used to know alot about puters, but since my wife is so well schooled and has several certs in them, I sorta did not keep up on it since she fixes it all and I just do the fucking them up.chip sets, cards, what the fuck ever.I wills ay that I do know that duo core and, fuck I hate to say and admit this, but intel, is a must for lappys.I hate intel, Im a AMD person myself, but when talking lap top, intel kicks amd's ass.All desktops in my house however are AMD.

I've never heard of AMD. I know jack about computers. A Macbook Pro 17 is still not out of the question but I don't know how well it can handle a partitioned drive with windows on one side and Snow Leopard on the other running at the same time. AutoCad has to have Windows.

I guess they still call it a Graphics "card" even for laptops.. either way.. the spec for the HP you linked says: 1GB Nvidia GeForce GT 230M Nvidia GeForce GT 230M with 1GB dedicated video memory So it seems to have memory dedicated to video which speeds things up if it doesn't use memory that is shared with the standard memory.

A cad guy I know suggested a Lenovo. A few have said it's designed with CAD in mind. Whether that's true or not I don't know. Is Lenovo a good notebook overall? They're all starting to look the same to me.In all honesty I'm not seeing the difference. They all seem to have slightly different versions of the same shit on the inside. So what makes one notebook manufacture better than another?

While I beilieve that your video card/graphics card/chipset question is slightly squared away, feel free to ask me, I know quite a bit about the hardware components of computers (I've replaced many of my parts, and want to build one), but in terms of laptops, I'm personally fond of Lenovo over others. My school must have a deal with them, because we have probably about 200-400 of their R series for student use, and probably about 200 of their X series for teachers. They're really light, as in not heavy, seem to be very durable, and you can get quite a few add-ons to them, and build your own through their website for whatever you need. I think they'd be nice for CAD, since they use styluses as well as mice.I wouldn't recommend a Mac, because they're somewhat harder to service (You have to send them to Apple). Windows based computers are obviously much more versatile, and if you need it to run AutoCAD, then to me, that seals the deal.To revisit graphics cards, I could help you pick one out, I go though an outlet store/dealer that's nothing but great. I myself bought a decent (much better than the ATI chipset I had in before, mind you) Nvidia GeForce card for around $90 dollars, and it can run all my games that I have on their highest detail with little to no problem. While it's a different story to buy them, I'll still gladly offer my assistance. And I might be around more to bounce ideas off of than the others, I have not much to do, and get home at 2, so... or if you like, I can give you my e-mail, since I check that more often than here, anymore.And yes, Rad, (unless your being sarcastic) computers, to run optimally, actually require quite a lot of regular maintenance and replacements. The fan is the just the tip. Crack open your box, and take a look at all of the dust.

Well, as far as I know, some laptops have legitimate graphics cards in them, that can be replaced and everything. I think they're just oriented and such differently. Or it's just the name for what the chipset sits on, if it's not the motherboard.

I've never seen or heard of a laptop having graphics that was separate from the motherboard.