Sony Vaio or Dell

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I'm buying a new laptop and need to run the Archicad 11 or 12. Could someone tell me which one would be better?

Dell Vostro 1510

PROCESSOR Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo Processor T8100 (2.1 GHz, 3MB Cache, 800 MHz FSB)
MEMORY 2GB (2 X 1024MB) 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM
HARD DRIVE 160GB SATA Hard Drive
VIDEO CARD 256MB NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) 8400M GS (64bit)

or

Sony Vaio VGN-FW15GW

Processor Technology: Intel® Centrino® 2 Processor Technology, Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor P8400 (2.26GHz)
Processor System Bus: 1066MHz
Cache Memory: 3MB
RAM: 2G
Hard Drive: 250GB Serial ATA, 5400rpm
Graphics Accelerator: ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3470 with Dedicated Video Memory: 128MB


Thank you!

[Laszlo Nagy]

The Sony seems better.
Its processor has a higher frequency so it is faster.
Its hard drive is larger.
Its graphics card is also faster as far as I know.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your help!

[Stephen Dolbee]

I seem to recall Archicad recommends at least 256 for video. You might want to check that first.

[Laszlo Nagy]

That is a good point, I overlooked it.
Here are the full system requirements for ArchiCAD 12:

http://www.graphisoft.com/support/archicad/system_requirements/