mkopec
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One im running at home with right now, about 2 yrs old now maybe 3? Got it around 2020-21covid lockdowns... is a Lenovo with W-2235, 32768RAM, Quadro RTX4000, WD SN730 NVMe.I feel the exact opposite. 4 year old laptops are slow as shit. Your company must be buying the wrong laptops. You want workstations with H or HK series CPUs, not U or G series CPUs. The 12XXXH and 13XXXH series laptop CPUs are so unbelievably fast and efficient compared to any previous laptop-workstation class CPUs.
Edit: We had out own CAD IT dude back when these things were being ordered and he did a test, on my system, tracking what my usage was for RAM, Proc, video..etc... And suprisingly it does not take too much to run the CAD system I run, Siemens NX 10.0. It only gets hairy with RAM when you load up huge ass assemblies, basically like 1/2 the car, which we never do anyway.
The group that uses the baller Workstations is the ones that run the FEA simulations on shit like Crashes, Head impact and all that shit. It ususally takes their systems, top of the line, like 24 hrs or more, to run those simulations.
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