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the_almost · 07-12-2007, 08:05 PM

For those that are in college (engineeering majors), I was wondering:

how much emphasis is placed on running graphic intensive applications on your LAPTOP? such as solidworks, autoCAD, ect.

Are you required to run these on your laptop, or is it fine to the computer labs for this. I know my state college seems to suggest that we would only use matlab and maple software (not graphics intensive). everything else done mostly in the labs.

The reason I'm asking is because I bought a computer with an integrated graphics card, (up to 256 apparently), and wanted to know if I made a big mistake.

07-12-2007, 08:05 PM	#1
the_almost Junior Member Join Date: May 2007 Threads: 15 Posts: 36	computer - graphics card For those that are in college (engineeering majors), I was wondering: how much emphasis is placed on running graphic intensive applications on your LAPTOP? such as solidworks, autoCAD, ect. Are you required to run these on your laptop, or is it fine to the computer labs for this. I know my state college seems to suggest that we would only use matlab and maple software (not graphics intensive). everything else done mostly in the labs. The reason I'm asking is because I bought a computer with an integrated graphics card, (up to 256 apparently), and wanted to know if I made a big mistake.