T500 CAD experience?

[holo]

Hi,

has anyone yet tried some professional CAD applications on the T500?

Greets, grio

[WojtekJ]

Hi,

has anyone yet tried some professional CAD applications on the T500?

Greets, grio

There should be no difference in CAD between T500 and T61/T61p (the last one should be better in CAD than T500), so I suggest you asking on T61 subforum - there are much more T61/T61p than T500 on the market, so the probability that there's somebody there who uses CAD is much higher.
If you think about CAD on T500 - I suggest you buying at least WSXGA+ screen (or better WUXGA+).

[732]

I suggest you asking on T61 subforum - there are much more T61/T61p than T500 on the market, so the probability that there's somebody there who uses CAD is much higher.
If you think about CAD on T500 - I suggest you buying at least WSXGA+ screen (or better WUXGA+).

WSXGA+ is 1680x1050 and WUXGA 1920x1200, there is no WUXGA+. 14.1" T61 has maximum of 1440x900 or 1400x1050 resolution. Only 15.4" T61 and T61p and T500 have higher resolutions available.

[holo]

There should be no difference in CAD between T500 and T61/T61p (the last one should be better in CAD than T500)

But the T61p has certified workstation graphics (fx 570m) and the T500 has mainstream/consumer graphics (ati hd 3650)

[awolfe63]

Yes - but the W500 and T500 are currently shipping with the same driver revision. I think that perhaps the distinction between certified and consumer graphics has gone away.

Graphics chip manufacturers used to disable the OpenGL compliant line-draw hardware in the consumer chips. I don't know if that is still the case - but I would be surprised if wireframe performance is a big issue for anyone any more.

[WojtekJ]

I suggest you asking on T61 subforum - there are much more T61/T61p than T500 on the market, so the probability that there's somebody there who uses CAD is much higher.
If you think about CAD on T500 - I suggest you buying at least WSXGA+ screen (or better WUXGA+).

WSXGA+ is 1680x1050 and WUXGA 1920x1200, there is no WUXGA+. 14.1" T61 has maximum of 1440x900 or 1400x1050 resolution. Only 15.4" T61 and T61p and T500 have higher resolutions available.

It's just my typo, nothing more.
We all know that there's WXGA, WSXGA+ and WUXGA available in that 15,4" models (T61, T61p, T500, W500), so ...
I'm not mentioning 14,1" cause I don't believe it's a good solution for CAD.

There should be no difference in CAD between T500 and T61/T61p (the last one should be better in CAD than T500)

But the T61p has certified workstation graphics (fx 570m) and the T500 has mainstream/consumer graphics (ati hd 3650)

If you read my text one more time, you'll see "the last one should be better in CAD than T500".
You write the same I've already written - T61p will be better in CAD than T500 cause of it's graphic card.

Yes - but the W500 and T500 are currently shipping with the same driver revision. I think that perhaps the distinction between certified and consumer graphics has gone away.

Graphics chip manufacturers used to disable the OpenGL compliant line-draw hardware in the consumer chips. I don't know if that is still the case - but I would be surprised if wireframe performance is a big issue for anyone any more.

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